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Andy Burnham's Wealth Tax Idea and the Money the NHS Actually Needs

A £10bn proposal aimed at Britain's richest households lands just as the new prime minister sets out how he intends to pay for public services, and the NHS has more riding on the answer than most.

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Andy Burnham Inherits a Contract His Own Region Refused to Sign

Andy Burnham took office as prime minister on the same day that a published letter revived the argument for his region's stand against the NHS Federated Data Platform, and his own record leaves him little room to duck the question.

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NHS local health chiefs demand ‘air cover’ from national leadership to push through controversial healthcare reforms

Regional Integrated Care Boards inform NHS England that they must be shielded from criticism before implementing the service reductions and consolidations that ministers are depending on them to carry out.

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Britain Will Bet Billions on AI It Cannot Yet Touch, So Why Does the AI Already Inside Its Hospitals Struggle for Trust

The government's enthusiasm for backing speculative frontier science sits awkwardly beside its caution over artificial intelligence in the NHS, where the stakes are already real.

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When Whitehall Reorganises, the NHS Waits

Andy Burnham's plan to dismantle DSIT lands at the exact moment the health service most needs sustained regulatory attention to its AI ambitions.

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Yvette Cooper Named Health and Social Care Secretary as Burnham Forms First Cabinet

Appointment of a political heavyweight to the health brief signals the new prime minister's determination to make social care reform a defining test of his government.

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What Michigan's Cyclospora Outbreak Should Tell Britain About The Cost Of Cutting Prevention

A record-breaking parasitic outbreak spreading across five American states is less a story about contaminated lettuce than about what happens when the machinery of health protection is starved for years and then asked to perform under pressure.

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The Data Nobody Wanted To Publish: What America's Epic Hospitals Reveal About The Cost Of Training Nobody Funded

A recent study on the adoption of AI by Epic clinicians in the US provides the NHS with a heads-up about the gap between turning on a technology and training staff to trust it.

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