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UK Bank Tax Rise Risks Pushing Small Business Lending to US Private Credit Funds

Higher levies on high-street lenders ahead of the Budget could move SME financing to lightly regulated American non-bank funds, with higher costs for borrowers.

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Local Funding Reform Offers Advanced Therapies a Route to Patients

A two-year NHS England pilot from April 2027 targets the financial barriers that limit access to new treatments for chronic conditions, and the details still to be settled will shape what it achieves.

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Canada's Hospital Data Partnership Offers the NHS a Workable Template for Early Warning

A federal agency and a Toronto hospital network show how routine clinical records could reach UK public health teams fast enough to change decisions

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Clinical Authorship Gives Children's Digital Tools Their Credibility

A guide from a technology firm and American paediatricians points the NHS towards a practical model for prevention as England tests the market for children's digital health

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NHS Manufacturing Capacity Gives Personalised Cancer Therapy a UK Home

A partnership between NHS Blood and Transplant and a US biotechnology firm shows how public laboratory networks can anchor advanced therapies and widen regional access across England

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Machine-Written Complaints Meet a Primary Care System With No Slack

A rise in AI-drafted patient letters adds administrative strain to general practice, and shows how waiting list failures elsewhere in the NHS land on the surgery front desk.

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The NHS Owns Its Mental Health Data. Why Do Trusts Have to Plead to Use It?

Almost every mental health trust running SystmOne has had the same request. With new powers over health IT suppliers now on the statute book, it is time someone answered it.

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Seven UK Health Tech Start-Ups Win Up to £70,000 in Incubator Support

The DTC Health programme, overseen by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, is backing medical devices and AI-based diagnostic and therapeutic tools.

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