Healthcare

Devoted's £18.3bn Valuation Exposes the NHS's Financial Bottlenecks

What a £18.3bn American insurance bet says about the slower arithmetic of NHS digital reform.

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NHS to Send At-Home Screening Kits to Four Million Women Behind on Cervical Checks

Self-sampling scheme targets the gap to the 80 per cent screening target as ministers press the case for prevention ahead of the 2040 elimination goal.

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HSE's Virtual Care Governance Offers a Template the NHS Has Yet to Follow

Ireland's structured approach to scaling digital pathways exposes the evidential gaps in England's own virtual ward expansion.

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NHS-Council Care Handover Fractures Are Exposed by Record Discharge Delays

A mid-summer peak in medically fit patients stuck in hospital beds points to a breakdown in intermediate care and end-of-life discharge, not hospital inefficiency.

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When the Rules for Looking Are Harder to Write Than the Rules for Storing

NHS England's retreat on patient data access exposes a gap between the ambitions of centralised health data and the unglamorous work of governing who gets to look at it.

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One-Sided Flexibility Policy Meets the NHS: Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Government estimates put the cost of guaranteed-hours rights at up to £2.9bn a year across the economy, and NHS Employers is warning that health service banks, built on the very flexibility ministers want to restrict, could bear a disproportionate share of the disruption.

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Home-Grown Systems and the Unfinished Argument for Centralised NHS Data

Why a Trust Chief Executive's Defence of In-House Technology Exposes a Deeper Rift in Digital Reform.

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UK Pledges £343M for Mental Health Expansion and Youth Digital Support

New community hubs and emergency departments mark an early domestic policy test for Yvette Cooper, while Somerset ICB's separate tender points to the smaller-scale procurement decisions now running alongside the national rollout.

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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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