Healthcare

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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A Prime Minister Returns To Unfinished Business On Social Care

Andy Burnham's likely choice of Angela Rayner as Health Secretary signals that the National Care Service he failed to build in 2010 may finally be tested against the funding constraints he once underestimated.

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Former Food Standards Agency Chief Appointed To Lead Care Regulator Through Recovery

Emily Miles to take charge at the Care Quality Commission this autumn, succeeding interim chief executive Dr Arun Chopra as the regulator continues its post-Dash rebuild.

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A Chartered Flight To North London Tests A Health System Already Stretched Thin

An humanitarian employee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo was quietly evacuated, demonstrating the extent to which national health security now rests on a service that is operating at near capacity.

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A Rural Sussex Trial Becomes A National Promise, And The Minister Who Made It Has Already Moved On

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A Small Island's Careful Timetable And The Test It Sets For Westminster's Bigger Ambition

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