The heatwave that brought NHS hospitals to their knees was not a surprise. It was the predictable consequence of building a digital health service on an estate that was already failing.
As Silicon Valley rediscovers the physical economy, Britain's health system faces a harder question: what happens when the infrastructure under its digital ambitions starts to fail?
A £11 million cluster in Greater Manchester raises a question the health service has never quite answered: how do you turn promising technology into embedded clinical practice?
The dismissals form part of a wider pattern of confidentiality breaches that has put NHS trusts under growing pressure to control who can see patient files.
NHS England boss Sir Jim Mackey targets "escaped" executives by closing loopholes that allow leaders to evade scrutiny after changing employers.
Legal action over paediatric audiology failures exposes what happens when NHS services fail quietly, without drama, and over years
Whether Wes Streeting or Ed Miliband sits in No 11 will matter as much to health policy as anything Andy Burnham does in No 10
The NHS's HIV opt-out programme has found 2,000 undiagnosed cases in four years. It also tells us something important about how the health service should think about prevention.
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