Healthcare

Sir Jim Mackey Backs Independent Scrutiny Of The £330 Million Palantir Data Contract As Ministers Weigh An Autumn Exit

The NHS England chief executive has told MPs that his own reservations about the Federated Data Platform's efficiency claims warrant closer, external examination.

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What Britain's Health Service Can Learn From China's Race To Build A Robotic Hand

A global contest to solve the hardest problem in robotics exposes an uncomfortable truth about where the UK has chosen to invest its ambitions for AI in healthcare.
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The Reopening of London's Markets Offers Little Comfort to Britain's Health Technology Sector

A modest IPO recovery is being driven by defence, semiconductors and space, not by the life sciences and digital health firms the NHS depends on.

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The Minister Who Asked to Be Held to Account, and What It Reveals About Whitehall's Trust Deficit

When Curiosity Becomes a Career-Ending Offence, the NHS Still Has to Answer the Harder Question

Personal Independence Payment as a Measure of NHS Failure, Not Welfare Generosity

Burnham's uncontested path to power leaves two NHS reform agendas pointing in opposite directions

When the algorithm gets it right, the system still has to catch up

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The Reopening of London's Markets Offers Little Comfort to Britain's Health Technology Sector

A modest IPO recovery is being driven by defence, semiconductors and space, not by the life sciences and digital health firms the NHS depends on.

The Productivity Bill Andy Burnham Will Inherit Before He Reaches Downing Street

The OBR's latest fiscal warning turns NHS efficiency from an aspiration into an actuarial assumption.

Why Paul Taylor's Tax Warning Should Worry NHS Digital Reformers Too

A fintech founder's complaint about capital gains and stamp duty exposes a fault line running straight through Britain's plans for AI-driven healthcare.

When The Market Won't Pay, America Will

EasyJet's £5.5bn sale to a Minneapolis investor is not really about aircraft. It is about who ends up owning the parts of Britain that keep running whether or not the stock market notices.

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The NHS Cannot Build Its AI Future On Unbuilt Power

Lanarkshire's datacentre shortfall exposes a pattern of ambition outrunning infrastructure that NHS technology programmes would do well to heed.

When The Machine Acts Alone: What The FCA's AI Warning Means For The NHS

The Mills Review's verdict on agentic finance reads like a preview of the argument already under way inside the MHRA.

Same Lab, One Login Screen Fewer

Anthropic's new AI workbench for scientists lands just as the NHS tries to work out who will actually run the analysis on its unified health data.

When The Money Arrives Before The Machinery Does

The £298bn Defence Investment Plan tests whether Whitehall can spend at speed. The NHS has been failing that same test for a decade.

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