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The New Puppeteers Of NHS Care: How US Tech Is Moving Inside Britain’s Health Service

The NHS is British, publicly funded and built around universal care. Yet more of its digital nervous system is being supplied by American technology companies. The question is no longer whether this technology works. It is how dependent Britain is prepared to become.

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Building The Full Loop: What The Radar Healthcare and Cemplicity Deal Signals For NHS Quality And Patient Experience

A Leeds health-tech consolidation arrives just as government policy makes patient-reported data central to how the NHS measures itself.

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A Worthing Biotech's Recovery Signals What Britain's Life Sciences Base Can Still Deliver

Allergy Therapeutics' turnaround, and the case it makes for backing homegrown immunotherapy through a difficult financing climate.

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The FTC Is Looking At Epic. The NHS Should Be Asking Who Really Controls Its Data

The US Federal Trade Commission is examining Epic Systems, one of the world’s most powerful electronic health record companies, including questions around competition and access to healthcare data.

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Where NHS Leaders Are Choosing To Spend Their Conference Time

The NHS events calendar is crowded, but the latest picture suggests that attention is concentrating around a relatively small number of meetings.

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How Advice And Guidance Is Reshaping The Cancer Referral Pathway

A scheme designed to spare patients unnecessary hospital visits is instead absorbing referrals it was never meant to touch, testing the limits of NHS England's 2026/27 reform agenda.

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The NHS Built A Bus Because It Could Not Fix The GP Appointment

A Warrington screening scheme reveals the gap between NHS prevention rhetoric and the everyday mechanics of access.

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A Quiet Retirement Of A Patient's Right, And What It Reveals About Rationing By Stealth

New GP discretion over PSA testing for men without symptoms formalises a decision the health service has long made informally, at a moment when it can least afford to be seen making it.

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