Research

A £1.5 million Birmingham contract shows what NHS obesity care now looks like on paper, and how much still depends on what happens off it.

The Care Quality Commission's latest inpatient survey shows a health service coping unevenly with pressure, and the unevenness has a shape.

Norfolk and Suffolk's advance to full mobilisation on its SystmOne rollout sits alongside trusts at earlier and more precarious stages of the same journey, exposing how unevenly digital maturity is spreading across the service just as its national overseer prepares to disappear.

Ireland's structured approach to scaling digital pathways exposes the evidential gaps in England's own virtual ward expansion.

The legal fight over sleep accuracy could have consequences far beyond consumers, including NHS observational studies, digital biomarkers and the future of wearable-led research.

Google's wrist-worn health insights arrive as Whitehall's own prevention strategy struggles to move beyond aspiration.

As dozens of trusts weigh closure against staffing collapse, the NHS is being forced into a choice it has spent decades avoiding: proximity or survival.

Eleven cases in Barry since December have forced a five-day vaccination drive at a district hospital, and exposed how little the UK's immunisation architecture has adapted to a disease it has chosen to manage only after the fact.