Healthcare

Boston Scientific's Cyberattack And The Fragility Behind NHS Cardiac Care

A ransomware-style incident thousands of miles from Britain has exposed how much of the NHS's most sensitive procurement now runs through single manufacturers with no meaningful backup.

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Britain's Missile Stocks Are Not The Only Thing Running Low

As Whitehall counts Patriot interceptors, the NHS's own defences against a hostile state are being tested in trust IT departments, largely unnoticed.

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When The Machinery Behind A Vaccine Programme Falters, Approval Alone Offers Little Protection

America's confused rollout of updated Covid-19 vaccines is a reminder that Britain's quieter institutional arrangements deserve more scrutiny than they usually receive.

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US Nurses Launch Nationwide Protests Against Palantir as NHS Scrutiny Grows

National Nurses United is leading its largest coordinated action yet against Palantir, raising wider questions about health data, public infrastructure and technology dependence that matter far beyond the United States.

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When Satisfaction Data Reveals Who The NHS Is Failing

The Care Quality Commission's latest inpatient survey shows a health service coping unevenly with pressure, and the unevenness has a shape.

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A Second Pair Of Eyes In The Operating Theatre Tests Britain's Readiness To Regulate Surgical AI

The UCLH pituitary operation shows what real-time clinical AI can do, and how far the rules built for it still have to travel.

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While Palantir Dominates The Headlines, A Quieter NHS Data Strategy Is Taking Shape In The Regions

Small accelerator grants in the North West point to a federated alternative to the Federated Data Platform, and expose a question ministers have yet to answer about which model of data infrastructure they are actually backing.

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A Breakthrough Drug Exposes The Limits Of Britain's Pancreatic Cancer Pathway

Faster regulatory approval will do little for patients the NHS still finds too late to treat.

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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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