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Britain Will Bet Billions on AI It Cannot Yet Touch, So Why Does the AI Already Inside Its Hospitals Struggle for Trust

The government's enthusiasm for backing speculative frontier science sits awkwardly beside its caution over artificial intelligence in the NHS, where the stakes are already real.

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When Whitehall Reorganises, the NHS Waits

Andy Burnham's plan to dismantle DSIT lands at the exact moment the health service most needs sustained regulatory attention to its AI ambitions.

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Yvette Cooper Named Health and Social Care Secretary as Burnham Forms First Cabinet

Appointment of a political heavyweight to the health brief signals the new prime minister's determination to make social care reform a defining test of his government.

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What Michigan's Cyclospora Outbreak Should Tell Britain About The Cost Of Cutting Prevention

A record-breaking parasitic outbreak spreading across five American states is less a story about contaminated lettuce than about what happens when the machinery of health protection is starved for years and then asked to perform under pressure.

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The Data Nobody Wanted To Publish: What America's Epic Hospitals Reveal About The Cost Of Training Nobody Funded

A recent study on the adoption of AI by Epic clinicians in the US provides the NHS with a heads-up about the gap between turning on a technology and training staff to trust it.

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Younger Midwives Are Quitting The NHS In Record Numbers, And The Pipeline Behind Them Is Failing Too

New figures on early-career departures and training dropout rates point to a workforce crisis that begins long before staff reach the wards.

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NHS Approval Of Two Rare Blood Cancer Treatments Exposes The Quiet Machinery Of Specialised Commissioning

Behind the announcement on dabrafenib and Hodgkin lymphoma lies a funding process now carrying growing weight for patients whose diseases fall outside NICE's remit.

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Bereaved Families Call For Honours To Be Stripped From Former Nottingham Maternity Executives Following Ockenden Report

Forfeiture letters submitted to the Cabinet Office mark the latest test of whether individual accountability can follow institutional failure in the NHS.

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