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Federated Data Platform's Promised Savings Cut By £1.7bn As Costs Continue To Climb

New figures reported show the benefits once projected for the NHS's flagship data platform have been substantially overstated, sharpening the case ministers must weigh before a 2027 decision on the Palantir contract.

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The Digital Strategy Of St George's, Epsom, And St Helier: When The Ambition Outpaces The Wiring Acknowledges The NHS

A five-year vision built on ambient voice and a single data platform sits alongside a more modest, and more telling, admission: tens of millions of pounds are needed simply to stop the network falling over.
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Humber Health Partnership Advances Mental Capacity Digitisation As ORBIS Implementation Takes Shape

Trust group reports early gains from paperless Mental Capacity Act processes while its EPR programme moves forward under newly confirmed supplier Dedalus.

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Yvette Cooper's Discharge Diagnosis Is Correct. The Harder Question Is Whether Westminster Can Finally Act On It

Jonathan Webb Confirmed As Permanent Chief Executive Of NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

What America's Veterans Health IT Bet Should Teach The NHS About Digital Transformation Without Accountability

Why America’s MMR Debate Threatens Global Measles Control

The Quiet Argument For Taking Reform's NHS Ambitions Seriously And The Absentia Byelection Win

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Humber Health Partnership Advances Mental Capacity Digitisation As ORBIS Implementation Takes Shape

Trust group reports early gains from paperless Mental Capacity Act processes while its EPR programme moves forward under newly confirmed supplier Dedalus.

The Hidden Cost Of Growth By Referral: What Commure's Reckoning Should Teach NHS Procurement

As a Silicon Valley health-tech unicorn quietly unwinds its incentive scheme under scrutiny, Britain's health service has reason to examine whether its own vendor relationships would survive the same test.

NHS Rota Gaps And The Contracts Westminster Wants Gone

Labour's zero-hours crackdown was priced as a burden on private employers, but the health service runs its own staff banks on the same terms, and the bill has not been properly counted.

The NHS Has Never Priced In the Cost of Heat

How the NHS's own balance sheet is affected by this summer's heat and why it cannot be treated as weather in the upcoming budget.

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A Five-Day Programme In Bristol Points To A Bigger Problem In NHS Primary Care Procurement

A regional accelerator indicates that the more challenging obstacle for innovators is not the development of high-quality technology, but rather the process of understanding how the NHS purchases it. This is in response to the influx of capital into general practice software.

Oxford Biomedica And The Weight Of A National Ambition

A guidance cut that rattled the market says more about the cost of building sovereign life sciences capacity than about the company itself.

Britain's AI Windfall And The Widening Gap Between Capital And Care

A record half-year for AI investment says more about London's financial gravity than about what the NHS will actually receive.

Google's Retreat From A Founder-Led Mission Should Sharpen The NHS's Terms With Its AI Partners

Demis Hassabis stepping back from DeepMind revives an unresolved question about what Big Tech owes the health system it once used to prove itself.

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