Healthcare

Why The NHS Has A Winter Plan And No Summer One

The NHS's planning deficit has been revealed by extreme heat, a gap that has never needed to be addressed during decades of winter crisis management. The political response thus far indicates that the government has not yet fully assessed the extent of the issue.

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The False Choice In Pharma: Why Lower Drug Prices Don't Have To Cost Us The Next Breakthrough

This year, the NHS received the solution to the pharmaceutical pricing conundrum. Making it work is proving harder than writing it down.

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Health Officials Launch Investigation After Bacterial Infection Detected In Limerick Neonatal Unit

Vulnerable infants receive targeted antibiotics as HSE traces sources of Pseudomonas aeruginosa within University Maternity Hospital Limerick's intensive care ward.

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The NHS Could Become Britain’s Great Growth Story

If Labour can turn better health into shorter waits, higher productivity and greater economic participation, the NHS may become much more than its biggest public service. It could become one of the strongest arguments for what the government can achieve. But that will bring a new bargain for NHS leaders: sustained investment in return for unmistakable delivery.

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When A Cure Has A Price: What Britain's Gene Therapy Gamble Reveals About The Politics Of Medical Innovation

The recalibrated VPAG rebate and NICE's raised thresholds mark a deliberate bet that paying pharmaceutical companies more will keep advanced treatments flowing into the NHS, but the wager remains contested on both sides of the negotiating table.

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Britain Looks Up, And The NHS Has One Simple Message: Protect Your Eyes

Today Britain gets one of those rare moments when millions of people will stop what they are doing and look in the same direction.

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When One Trust's Numbers Break Everyone's Ranking, The NHS Has A Data Problem It Cannot League-Table Away

A single provider's flawed reporting has thrown national mental health and community care rankings into doubt, exposing how fragile the Oversight Framework's relative scoring really is.

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The Succession Question at NHS England Has a New Name: Elizabeth O’Mahony

Elizabeth O’Mahony has spent her career mastering the NHS’s hardest problem: turning money into delivery. That may make her precisely the sort of leader the health service needs next.

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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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