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NHS Pathology Staff Held 20 Days Of Strike Action In Lancashire Holiday Pay Row

Due to unpaid holiday benefits inherited by a new main employer trust, biomedical experts at Royal Blackburn and Burnley General hospitals went on strike.

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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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When The State Picks Up The Bill: British Steel's Nationalisation And The Warning It Carries For NHS Supply Chains

The rescue of Scunthorpe's blast furnace shows what it costs to discover a critical dependency only once it has failed. The NHS holds several of its own, and has not yet done the sums.

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NHS Ward Policy Remains Unaltered As England's Statutory Sex-Based Guidance Gains Legal Impact

Mock Parliamentary Interrogation on Prospects For A £342,000 Health Post

When The Landlord Controls The Operating Theatre

A Small Guideline From Dublin Exposes A Large Gap In English Maternity Care

Britain's Medicine Cupboards Are Packed, But Its Pharmacies Are Few.

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When The State Picks Up The Bill: British Steel's Nationalisation And The Warning It Carries For NHS Supply Chains

The rescue of Scunthorpe's blast furnace shows what it costs to discover a critical dependency only once it has failed. The NHS holds several of its own, and has not yet done the sums.

The Discipline Aviation Regulators Impose On Private Equity, And The NHS Never Learned

EasyJet's £5.7 billion sale to Apollo shows how carefully ownership can be engineered to satisfy a regulator. NHS dentistry and social care show what happens when nobody bothers.

When the Treasury Talks About Borrowing, The NHS Estate Is Listening

John Healey's search for fiscal flexibility ahead of his first budget will decide whether a decade of promised capital investment in hospitals finally arrives, or is quietly redirected again.

Where the Health Service's Budget Insurance Policy Went Missing

Andy Burnham's failure to install an authoritative economic team leaves the NHS exposed just as Budget day approaches.

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A State-Backed Bet On Solar Heat Technology Raises Awkward Questions About The NHS's Own Stalled Decarbonisation

Great British Energy has found almost £9 million to build a British factory for renewable heat. Hospitals, meanwhile, are still burning gas to keep their wards warm, and the money to change that keeps arriving too slowly and too late.

China's Warehouse Robots Are Already In Britain's Supply Chains. Washington's Response Should Worry The NHS

A US ban on Chinese-made humanoid robots exposes a governance question the health service has yet to confront, even as its own appetite for automation grows.

The Backdoor Precedent: What Apple's Fight With the Home Office Reveals About the State's Claim on Britain's Health Data

As Whitehall presses a technology company to weaken the security of a phone, it is simultaneously asking patients to hand over something far more sensitive than anything stored on it.

What a New Buy Now, Pay Later Regime Reveals About Who Owns the NHS Patient Relationship

Retail credit regulation and health data governance rarely share a headline, but both now turn on the same unresolved question about outsourcing the core relationship an institution exists to hold.

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