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Ed Smith Appointed Inaugural Chair of NHS Leadership College

Former NHS Improvement chair and PwC senior partner to lead new institution tasked with professionalising health service management

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Consultant Psychiatrist Appointed Chief Executive of Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Michael Holland succeeds retiring Grant Macdonald as trust seeks stable leadership across wide-ranging mental health and community services

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NHS Referral Filter Adding to Backlogs Rather Than Reducing Them, Internal Study Finds

Advice and Guidance system under-resourced and creating new administrative burden for consultants, ICB research reveals

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Three Thousand NHS England Staff to Leave as Headquarters Restructuring Accelerates

Voluntary exit and redundancy schemes remove a fifth of central workforce as government presses ahead with plan to halve administrative headcount

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UK Start-up Raises £9.8 Million to Manufacture Cancer Drugs in Orbit

BioOrbit secures record seed funding to develop space-based crystallisation technology that could shift cancer treatment from hospital infusions to home injection

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Anthropic Seeks $50 Billion Fundraise at $900 Billion Valuation Ahead of Planned Public Listing

AI company targets record private round as annualised revenue surpasses $30 billion and competition with OpenAI intensifies

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The £870bn Question: Reforming the NHS Pension Timebomb

As the notional liability of the health service's retirement scheme reaches record levels, ministers look for ways to cut costs without triggering a workforce exodus.

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At the NSS26: The Exec Exit Interview the NHS Didn't Know It Was Getting

Ming Tang spent sixteen years trying to make the NHS think differently about data. On her last day, she told the colleagues at the NSS26 what our health system needs to do to accelerate innovation.

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