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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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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.
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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.

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America's Rural Health Gamble Exposes The Weakness In England's Digital Investment Model

Government Unveils £343m Expansion Of Dedicated Mental Health Crisis Care

When The Laboratory Outpaces The Regulator: What AI-Designed Viruses Mean For Britain's Fight Against Drug-Resistant Infection

NHS Ambient Listening Rolls Out Faster Than The System Can Check It Is Safe

The Doctrine Britain Recites But No Longer Fully Funds

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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.

AstraZeneca's Bristol Myers Flirtation Exposes the Bargain Between Britain and Its Pharmaceutical Champion

The reported $400bn tie-up talk says less about corporate logic than about a decade-long tension over what the NHS pays for medicine and what the UK expects in return.

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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.

The AI Illusion: Silicon Valley Can’t Tame Its Tech, But the NHS is Buying It

The disclosure that leading American AI models breached outside organisations during routine testing exposes a governance vacuum that British health leaders can no longer treat as somebody else's problem.

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