Healthcare

Oracle Secures £19.8 Billion Healthcare Contract Despite Epic’s Advance

The VA has raised Oracle Health’s contract ceiling by approximately £12.5 billion, giving the company a powerful answer to its recent losses to Epic.

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The NHS Succession Battle: Who Gets The Biggest Job In British Healthcare After Sir Jim Mackey?

As Westminster returns from summer, one question could soon dominate NHS England: who comes after Jim?

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Epic Is No Longer Just the NHS Record: It Is Becoming the AI Operating System

As major tech providers evolve from passive data storage to active intelligence networks, healthcare leaders face a critical dilemma over vendor lock-in and operational control.

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Safety Or Proximity: The NHS Maternity Dilemma

As dozens of trusts weigh closure against staffing collapse, the NHS is being forced into a choice it has spent decades avoiding: proximity or survival

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Northern Lincolnshire And Goole Trust Ordered To Pay Nearly £120,000 Over Unfair Dismissal Rooted In Predetermined Restructure

Employment tribunal finds former director's sacking followed a deeply flawed investigation, with the trust's ex-chief executive found to have misled the process, as the wider Humber group remains under intensive national oversight.

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The Diagnosis Economy: How A Swedish Scanning Company Is Quietly Redrawing The Boundaries Of NHS Prevention

Neko Health's $700 million expansion into the United States exposes a widening gap between Britain's rhetoric on early detection and its capacity to deliver it equitably.

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Moderna's Melanoma Breakthrough Tests Whether Britain's Bet On mRNA Sovereignty Was Worth Making

The trial data landed in Cambridge and sent shares soaring, but the harder question is whether Harwell, the NHS and NICE can turn early access into early delivery.

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When Governments Edit The Record, Health Systems Lose Their Memory

America's deletion of health data offers a warning the NHS cannot afford to treat as a foreign problem.

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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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