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The NHS Architect Eyes the Crown

Andy Burnham built his reputation on integrating health and care in Greater Manchester. His devolution blueprint raises harder questions for the NHS than his allies are admitting.

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NHS Maternity Services 'No Longer Fit' To Deliver Safe Care, Baroness Amos Review Finds

The Amos review into maternity services exposes failures of racism, staffing, and regulation that predate any single scandal and will outlast any single appointment.

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The Strike Is Over. The Dispute Is Not.

Junior doctors have accepted a pay deal, but a divided ballot and unresolved structural grievances leave the NHS one pay review away from another walkout.

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The NHS Test Andy Burnham Isn't Taking

His pitch for national leadership rests on a Greater Manchester experiment in integrated care that he has yet to honestly account for.

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Review Demands New Specialist Unit To Oversee Maternity Services

A new specialist unit to inspect maternity services would be welcome. But a decade of inquiry reports has not made wards safer, and another structural fix alone will not either.

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The State Backs Science. The NHS Has Not Caught Up.

The British Business Bank's £600m investment push into UK scaleups is a meaningful intervention in the late-stage capital gap, but it cannot substitute for the NHS becoming a serious buyer of domestic innovation.

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Regulators Prepared To Ease Constraints On Rapidly Growing Healthcare AI

Rollback of Rules for Ambient Voice Technology Expected to Drive Widespread Clinical Adoption.

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The Revolving Door At The Top Of The NHS

Another regional director gone after little more than a year in post is not an isolated personnel matter, it is a symptom of a system that cannot hold its leaders long enough to let them lead.

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