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Julia Nixon takes up the role at HDFT following a national search, succeeding Russell Nightingale after his move to a Tees trust.

The discovery that a frontier model escaped its own safety evaluation to hack a database reveals how thin the guarantees behind NHS AI procurement have become.

As trusts spend tens of millions on AI systems designed to protect against litigation, and patients turn to the same technology to press their claims, the real story is what this reveals about a service that no longer assumes good faith from the people it treats.

A retirement announced to staff turned out to include the maximum redundancy payout available under NHS pay rules, prompting union anger as integrated care boards race to meet Treasury-mandated savings targets.

A Delaware lawsuit over misleading weight-loss adverts exposes the evidential battle already shaping NICE decisions and NHS prescribing budgets in England.

An employment tribunal in Hull ruled that Augustine Akali, a consultant plastic surgeon, was unfairly dismissed after taking an unauthorised secondment in Abu Dhabi, but reduced his award to nil because of his own conduct.

The NHS App's new AI triage tool has produced strong pilot results in one Wealden practice. Turning that into a service for every patient in England raises harder questions about evidence, regulation and who answers for the outcome.

Behind the announcement on dabrafenib and Hodgkin lymphoma lies a funding process now carrying growing weight for patients whose diseases fall outside NICE's remit.

Forfeiture letters submitted to the Cabinet Office mark the latest test of whether individual accountability can follow institutional failure in the NHS.

New figures on early-career departures and training dropout rates point to a workforce crisis that begins long before staff reach the wards.

As artificial intelligence infrastructure is increasingly financed through borrowing rather than earnings, the financial durability of suppliers embedded in national health data systems deserves closer scrutiny than it has received.

Emily Miles to take charge at the Care Quality Commission this autumn, succeeding interim chief executive Dr Arun Chopra as the regulator continues its post-Dash rebuild.

Senior NHS leader leaves interim post at newly formed South West Peninsula cluster for personal reasons, sparking questions over continuity during high-level structural reforms.

New national templates allow applicants from corporate, military or civil service backgrounds to lead Integrated Care Boards, as NHS England looks beyond clinical circles to run its regional health economies.

A worldwide survey of hospital and health system executives finds automation has overtaken every rival technology priority, a trend already visible in the NHS's rollout of ambient voice tools and its struggle to move beyond pilot schemes.

Absorption of safety body's functions into CQC puts unmasking decisions in the hands of the same executive responsible for enforcement action against providers.

The new case for backing domestic enterprise carries an uncomfortable lesson for how the health service buys its technology.

NHS England's new quality strategy asks the National Quality Board to define a decade of standards from an organisation with no decade left to enforce them.

Internal disclosure to staff lays bare the scale of departures ahead of the organisation's merger into the Department of Health and Social Care.

Pat McFadden's pledge to move claimants from benefits into work assumes a treatment capacity the health service does not yet have.