Healthcare

The FTC Is Looking At Epic. The NHS Should Be Asking Who Really Controls Its Data

The US Federal Trade Commission is examining Epic Systems, one of the world’s most powerful electronic health record companies, including questions around competition and access to healthcare data.

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Where NHS Leaders Are Choosing To Spend Their Conference Time

The NHS events calendar is crowded, but the latest picture suggests that attention is concentrating around a relatively small number of meetings.

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How Advice And Guidance Is Reshaping The Cancer Referral Pathway

A scheme designed to spare patients unnecessary hospital visits is instead absorbing referrals it was never meant to touch, testing the limits of NHS England's 2026/27 reform agenda.

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The NHS Built A Bus Because It Could Not Fix The GP Appointment

A Warrington screening scheme reveals the gap between NHS prevention rhetoric and the everyday mechanics of access.

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A Quiet Retirement Of A Patient's Right, And What It Reveals About Rationing By Stealth

New GP discretion over PSA testing for men without symptoms formalises a decision the health service has long made informally, at a moment when it can least afford to be seen making it.

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Yvette Cooper's Discharge Diagnosis Is Correct. The Harder Question Is Whether Westminster Can Finally Act On It

The health secretary's blunt language on hospital discharge captures a decade-old failure, but fixing it demands more than a change of tone at the top of the department.

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Jonathan Webb Confirmed As Permanent Chief Executive Of NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

The former finance director's promotion from interim to substantive leadership closes a six-month transition period as the ICB prepares to implement a new operating model under the 10 Year Health Plan.

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What America's Veterans Health IT Bet Should Teach The NHS About Digital Transformation Without Accountability

A contract extension in Washington, buried under redacted figures, offers a cautionary mirror for Britain's own high-stakes wager on Epic, Palantir and centralised health data.

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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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