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NHS Survey Finds Bank Staff Motivation Climbing While Permanent Employees Become Less Engaged

National workforce data reveals a widening gap between flexible and substantive staff, raising questions about retention and the long-term stability of hospital teams.

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NHS Trusts Spending Millions on Agency Staff to Supervise Stranded Mental Health Patients

Acute hospitals are diverting funds from surgical budgets to cover the cost of round-the-clock supervision for psychiatric patients who cannot be transferred to specialist care.

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Epsom and St Helier Settles High Court Dispute with Radiology Firm Over £16 Million Contract

Trust reaches confidential agreement with Everlight Radiology after year-long legal challenge over outsourced imaging deal awarded to competitor Medica.

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Men's Health Programmes Received 60% Larger Funding Increase Than Women's

Budget data shows spending on male-specific services grew at a faster rate despite government commitments to address inequality in women's healthcare.

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Is the NHS's Federated Data Platform failing, or just getting started?

Criticism of Palantir's Federated Data Platform often mistakes immaturity for failure and underestimates how hard this problem has always been.

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Trump's Psychedelic Executive Order Sends British Biotech Shares Surging

US policy shift accelerates regulatory pathways for psilocybin and ibogaine therapies, handing an immediate market advantage to UK-founded drug developers.

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Record Cancer Diagnoses Expose the Limits of Treating Disease Too Late

Survival rates are improving but beginning to stall, and the evidence points to earlier detection as the area where most lives could still be saved

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Health Secretary Urged by Families to Remove Nottingham Consultant from National Maternity Taskforce

Streeting faces calls to act over appointment of senior neonatologist with decades of service at trust under investigation

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