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Digital Investment Across The NHS Reveals A System Solving Its Own Problems One Trust At A Time

A run of recent upgrades, pilots and procurements shows how much of the health service's technology progress is still being built locally rather than delivered from the centre.

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NHS Leadership: England's Largest Health Board Appoints Permanent Chief

Katie Fisher takes permanent charge of NHS West and North London as the commissioning body prepares to serve 4.5 million residents across the capital.

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Fourth Health Secretary in a Year as Cooper Inherits a Department Still Finding Its Feet

McGovern and Frith join DHSC under Burnham as ministerial churn continues to outpace policy delivery.

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A Four-Year Wait Exposes How England Prices the Value of Walking

The belated approval of fampridine for multiple sclerosis says less about a drug than about the machinery that decides who gets one.

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The Arithmetic of Popularity: Why a New Government's Tax and Transport Pledges Point Straight Back to the NHS Settlement

As Downing Street weighs an expansive autumn statement built on visible, universal giveaways, the health service's quieter, less electable costs are likely to lose the argument for scarce fiscal room.

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Harrogate Trust Names New Chief Operating Officer As NHS Leadership Churn Continues

Julia Nixon takes up the role at HDFT following a national search, succeeding Russell Nightingale after his move to a Tees trust.

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A Private Hospital's New Patient Record Reveals How Digital Britain Is Quietly Splitting in Two

New Victoria Hospital's move to a cloud-based EPR shows how easily private providers can modernise, and what that ease is starting to cost an NHS that increasingly depends on them.

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Tesla's Missed Promises Are A Warning The NHS Would Do Well To Heed Before It Signs Its Next Technology Contract

What a wobbling car company's pivot into robots says about the discipline health leaders still need when buying the future.

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