Healthcare

After the Busiest Summer on Record, the NHS Bets on Prevention to Blunt Another Winter Surge

The flu campaign now under way is less a public health ritual than a rehearsal for a health service that cannot afford another early collapse

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The Sandbox Cannot Fix What Happens After the Sandbox

A new Manchester trial site for AI medical devices tackles the NHS's evidence problem, but the harder task of scaling innovation across a fragmented system remains untouched

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Ambulance Trust Condemned for Two-Month Delay in Reporting Southport Data Breach

Victims of the 2024 attack were left uninformed after staff inappropriately accessed their medical files, prompting severe criticism of healthcare privacy protocols

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Hospital Group Faces £11m Overspend in Digital Records Rollout

Norfolk and Waveney warns that a lack of additional funding could derail its IT modernisation, even as maternity upgrades and wider national digital transformations push forward

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Dublin's Recovery Offers a Warning and a Template for the NHS

A crisis-forced digital overhaul in Ireland's health service shows what happens when reform arrives too late, and what it delivers once it finally does

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The World Is Digitising Care. England Is Still Arguing About the Wiring

While Ontario, Delaware and Gaborone lock down single patient records, NHS trusts remain split between rival systems and a data platform still fighting for trust

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