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Safety Watchdog Calls for Pause on NHS Referral Scheme After Deaths Linked to Delayed Care

Investigators warn that gaps in oversight of the Advice and Guidance policy left patients falling between primary and secondary care, as regulators separately press NHS England on the safety of its expansion.

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When Whitehall Buys Assurance by the Framework, the NHS Buys It by the Contract

HMRC's £78.2m Atos deal exposes a widening gap between how government departments spread technology risk and how the health service concentrates it.
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Andy Burnham's Global Inequality Test Begins At Home, Not At The G20

A letter urging the prime minister to back a new UN inequality panel raises an uncomfortable question about whether his own health devolution project has yet proved itself.

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Eleven NHS Bodies Left Without Deficit Support After Failing to Sign Compliant Budgets, Figures Show

Ireland Publishes the Innovation Framework England Forgot to Build

The Hepatitis A Gap: What a Small Welsh Outbreak Reveals About the Limits of Britain's Vaccination Strategy

When Evidence Becomes Ideology: What Washington's Assault on Discrimination Research Should Teach the NHS

What the NHS Referral Rift Shows About Digital Triage's Boundaries

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Andy Burnham's Global Inequality Test Begins At Home, Not At The G20

A letter urging the prime minister to back a new UN inequality panel raises an uncomfortable question about whether his own health devolution project has yet proved itself.

A Worthing Biotech's Recovery Signals What Britain's Life Sciences Base Can Still Deliver

Allergy Therapeutics' turnaround, and the case it makes for backing homegrown immunotherapy through a difficult financing climate.

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.

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Building The Full Loop: What The Radar Healthcare and Cemplicity Deal Signals For NHS Quality And Patient Experience

A Leeds health-tech consolidation arrives just as government policy makes patient-reported data central to how the NHS measures itself.

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.

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.

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