Healthcare

MHRA Clears First Oral GLP-1 Tablet For Weight Management And Type 2 Diabetes As NHS Access Question Remains Unresolved

Authorisation of Eli Lilly's Foundayo marks a European regulatory first, but the drug's path onto NHS formularies now depends on how quickly NICE can complete its evaluation.

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EXCLUSIVE: Epic’s £1.8bn Oracle Raid, The Hospitals It Has Taken and How Oracle Can Stop the Tsunami

If each of Epic’s nine Oracle related hospital wins is worth around £200 million over the life of the contract, the potential value transfer is roughly £1.8 billion. The bigger issue for Oracle is what comes with it.

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Inside Epic UGM 2026: The Biggest Reveals From “Cool Stuff Ahead”

The agenda that mattered from Epic UGM 2026, from 320 million patient records and AI agents to autonomous coding, hospital ERP, voice AI and the next generation of MyChart.

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How A Scheme Meant To Speed Up NHS Referrals Became A Hidden Route To Missed Cancer Diagnoses

As advice and guidance shifts from optional triage to contractual requirement, an interim safety investigation exposes how little oversight travels with it.

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A Second Outbreak, the Same Strain: What Recurring Salmonella Cases Reveal About Britain's Neglected Health Defences

Imported eggs have caused a near-identical outbreak two years running, exposing how prevention loses out to acute care in the fight for NHS resource.

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When the Algorithm Stands Accused, the NHS Cannot Afford to Watch From the Wings

A landmark Californian trial over children's mental health has a direct bearing on a British system already buckling under the same crisis.

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When Clinical AI Becomes Infrastructure, Not a Tool

America's enterprise rollout of AI decision support exposes the cost of England's cautious, fragmented approach.

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Britain's Welfare Instinct Meets Its Health Blind Spot

A charity coalition's warning to ministers over disabled young people exposes a deeper failure to join up welfare reform with the NHS's prevention agenda.

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How Gloria Steinem Rewrote the Rules of Women's Health

In six decades of unflinching argument, she forced American medicine to stop treating half its patients as an afterthought

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NHS Bets on Sovereign Data to Modernise Cancer Screening

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NHS Workforce Shrinks for the First Time in Over a Decade

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