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Trust Delayed Vital Records For Inquiry Into 2,000 Deaths

Former chief executive admits to underestimating the scale and resources required for landmark investigation.

Consultants Choose Their Moment, Even If They Have Not Chosen Their Dates

A strike mandate landing in the week of a Labour succession leaves the next occupant of Downing Street inheriting a fight neither side has fully joined.

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What America's First Lawsuits Over Unconsented AI Scribes Mean For The Accountability Of NHS Clinicians

As US patients take health systems to court over AI tools that listened without permission, Britain's regulators and medical defence bodies are quietly preparing for a reckoning of their own.

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Epic's Succession Question Is An NHS Governance Question Too

A leadership departure in Wisconsin exposes how little scrutiny the health service applies to the vendors now embedded in its clinical core.

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As Starmer's Premiership Winds Down In Ankara, The NHS Is Left Waiting To Learn Who Will Pay For Its Reforms

Keir Starmer's last set-piece on the world stage says more about the machinery of British government than about NATO.

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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.

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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.

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Consultants' Strike Mandate Lands On An Empty Desk

A 76 per cent vote for industrial action arrives just as the NHS's political chain of command is being rebuilt from the top down.

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