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The Adviser Who Fell Silent

Anthony Fauci's refusal to answer Congress is a lesson in what happens when scientific judgement sits too close to political power, just as Britain prepares to fold its own arm's-length health authority back into government.

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When NICE Reconsiders Itself: What the Lecanemab Deal Reveals About the Price of Slowing Dementia

Two years after rejecting the first drugs shown to delay Alzheimer's disease, the rationing body's methodological reversal exposes how negotiable its own economics can become, and what that might cost the NHS when the next expensive treatment arrives.

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What the Federal Reserve's Divided Vote Says About the Dangers of a Centralising NHS

Britain's health service is discreetly answering the same question in the reverse direction as Kevin Warsh encourages open dissension within the US central bank while the White House expects conformity.

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The Wifi Problem Beneath the AI Ambition

What one trust group's digital strategy reveals about the real state of NHS modernisation, and why the gap between fixing the basics and promising the future has become a defining tension in health policy.

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Burnham's First Wager: Betting the NHS's Own Ledger on the Fix for Social Care

A Prime Minister who spent a decade arguing social care was the missing half of NHS recovery now has to prove it with his own government's finances, not someone else's.

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Ned Hobbs and the discipline of operational leadership in a health service under pressure.

Behind every seamless patient outcome lies an operational discipline built on root-cause analysis, frontline alignment, and steadying leadership.

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US President Pressures Health Secretary to Accelerate Cuts to National Vaccine Schedule

The administration's pursuit of significant immunisation reforms faces internal political warnings, legal hurdles, and a backdrop of rising preventable diseases

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US Lawmakers Propose Multimillion-Dollar Push to Digitise Senior Care Records

Legislative effort seeks to end fragmented care for elderly patients through technology grants, echoing the NHS's own digital transition

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