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Former NHS England Strategy Chief Joins Major Communications Firm

Chris Hopson takes on a senior advisory role at public relations consultancy following executive board departure.

The Treasury's Gift To Cancer Patients: A VAT Bill

When HMRC began taxing pharmaceutical generosity, it revealed how Britain's ambitions for life sciences leadership can be quietly undermined by the state's own machinery.

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Oversight Failure: NHS Manager Dies After Urgent Referral Delayed

The death of an NHS manager after a downgraded referral raises questions that no trust statement or action plan will comfortably answer.

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The WHO's Enemies Have Organised. Britain Has Not Noticed.

Nigel Farage's anti-WHO campaign is moving to the United States and building a transatlantic network. The NHS depends on the institution it is trying to dismantle.

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When The Servers Go Dark: How Britain's NHS Heatwave Crisis Exposed A Decade Of Deferred Infrastructure Investment

The heatwave that brought NHS hospitals to their knees was not a surprise. It was the predictable consequence of building a digital health service on an estate that was already failing.

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The NHS Is Betting On Software. The Real Risk May Be Beneath It

As Silicon Valley rediscovers the physical economy, Britain's health system faces a harder question: what happens when the infrastructure under its digital ambitions starts to fail?

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Wearable Technology And The NHS's Enduring Innovation Problem

A £11 million cluster in Greater Manchester raises a question the health service has never quite answered: how do you turn promising technology into embedded clinical practice?

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Nottingham Hospital Trust Sacks Eleven Staff Over Unauthorised Access To Attack Victims' Records

The dismissals form part of a wider pattern of confidentiality breaches that has put NHS trusts under growing pressure to control who can see patient files.

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