Technology

Britain's AI Windfall And The Widening Gap Between Capital And Care

A record half-year for AI investment says more about London's financial gravity than about what the NHS will actually receive.

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Google's Retreat From A Founder-Led Mission Should Sharpen The NHS's Terms With Its AI Partners

Demis Hassabis stepping back from DeepMind revives an unresolved question about what Big Tech owes the health system it once used to prove itself.

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A State-Backed Bet On Solar Heat Technology Raises Awkward Questions About The NHS's Own Stalled Decarbonisation

Great British Energy has found almost £9 million to build a British factory for renewable heat. Hospitals, meanwhile, are still burning gas to keep their wards warm, and the money to change that keeps arriving too slowly and too late.

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China's Warehouse Robots Are Already In Britain's Supply Chains. Washington's Response Should Worry The NHS

A US ban on Chinese-made humanoid robots exposes a governance question the health service has yet to confront, even as its own appetite for automation grows.

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The Backdoor Precedent: What Apple's Fight With the Home Office Reveals About the State's Claim on Britain's Health Data

As Whitehall presses a technology company to weaken the security of a phone, it is simultaneously asking patients to hand over something far more sensitive than anything stored on it.

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What a New Buy Now, Pay Later Regime Reveals About Who Owns the NHS Patient Relationship

Retail credit regulation and health data governance rarely share a headline, but both now turn on the same unresolved question about outsourcing the core relationship an institution exists to hold.

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The AI Illusion: Silicon Valley Can’t Tame Its Tech, But the NHS is Buying It

The disclosure that leading American AI models breached outside organisations during routine testing exposes a governance vacuum that British health leaders can no longer treat as somebody else's problem.

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When The Market Cannot Keep Pace: Berkshire's Digital Strategy And The Fragile Arithmetic Of NHS Productivity

A trust's candid admission that scheduling software is simply unavailable in the market reveals how much of Whitehall's efficiency planning depends on technology that has not yet been built.

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The Digital Strategy Of St George's, Epsom, And St Helier: When The Ambition Outpaces The Wiring Acknowledges The NHS

A five-year vision built on ambient voice and a single data platform sits alongside a more modest, and more telling, admission: tens of millions of pounds are needed simply to stop the network falling over.

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A Five-Day Programme In Bristol Points To A Bigger Problem In NHS Primary Care Procurement

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Oxford Biomedica And The Weight Of A National Ambition

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