The NHS has a longstanding ambition to bring down hospital clinic waiting times, and the cheapest way is by reducing referrals.1 Some referrals are simple, and the patient’s problem might be solved by...

The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...

Development of a national "system control centre" tool for monitoring healthcare demand and capacity is being held up by "limitations" of the Federated Data Platform, an integrated care board has said...

Hijacking the energy-producing organelles from immune cells seems to help tumours in mice to infiltrate lymph nodes.

Calls for clear guardrails and consumer education before wider rollout of OpenAI’s health advice platform

Debates about NHS productivity wrongly assume hard trade-offs are necessary to improve the service's performance. In fact, bottom-up analysis of clinical processes shows better, faster, cheaper care is achievable now

Both the government and BMA misunderstand online GP access. Properly implemented triage improves patient care, efficiency, and reduces clinical risks

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'This is reflective of the severity of what has taken place'

President’s announcement latest move in campaign that seeks to valorize the ‘natural’ – often at women’s expense

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The NHS 10-Year Plan dazzles with tech visions but lacks focus, realism, and the operational 'plumbing' needed to deliver improvement

Disdain for management is crippling the NHS - undermining productivity, policy delivery, and the essential 'plumbing' behind effective healthcare systems

David Balisong, 17, from Cheadle, Greater Manchester, was midway through his A-level exams when he left home on June 6 and flew alone to Kuala Lumpur without telling anyone.

Ahem. Is it me or is there a disconnect between the importance voters place on the NHS this election (see below from@IpsosUK this week) and how little it feels like it’s been discussed? Not that it h...

Promising ideas get buried in a confused, under-ambitious UEC plan that misdiagnoses the true nature of the emergency care crisis, writes Steve Black