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New Medical and Scientific Chiefs Take Charge at UKHSA

Two senior figures with outbreak response and infectious disease research backgrounds join the agency's Executive Committee

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Small Tech, Big Ambitions: British Startups Take Center Stage at Labour Conference

Five technology firms exhibited in Liverpool as ministers and MPs discussed AI policy, public procurement and closer alignment with the EU

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HSBC to Cut Up to 70% of UK Wealth Advisers as It Adopts Artificial Intelligence

Bank plans to remove about half of management and specialist roles in its domestic wealth division while expanding automated services

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Workplace Drives Launched to Address Critical Shortage of Black Heritage Blood Donors

A programme across major UK employers brings clinicians and patients into offices to increase the supply of closely matched blood

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Remote Pain Management Programme for Endometriosis to Be Tested in £2.4m UK Trial

University of Aberdeen leads five-year study of a 12-week course for women whose pelvic pain persists after standard treatment

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Disease Surveillance in Kampala Is a Line of Defence for the NHS

UK investment in Ugandan laboratories gives the health service early warning that is hard to replicate at home, at a time when aid reductions and hospital strain are narrowing the margin for error

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Order Entry Is Where the NHS Digital Ambition Gets Tested

York and Scarborough's move to electronic test requesting shows how the single patient record, and the AI plans built on it, depend on routine hospital workflow

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Ownership of the NHS Software Layer Is Changing Hands Unobserved

The sale of Positive Solutions to a Canadian acquirer shows how little the health service tracks the private suppliers on which its digital ambitions rest

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