A £2bn investment in digitisation is central to cutting costs and increasing access to the National Health Service, according to the government’s latest announcement. The government’s plan for digital ...

What Palantir’s £330 million NHS data contract means for patients, privacy and the future of healthcare data in the UK.

A series of systemic failures at the NHS and Department of Health exposed the service to serious levels of cyber-risk, allowing WannaCry to disrupt over a third of trusts in England with thousands of ...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has expedited the merger of NHS England and NHS Digital in order to create a more streamlined technology and support body. The merger of the ...

A new statutory duty of candour making health bosses legally accountable for responding to concerns about patient safety could also be introduced. Sign Up and be kept in the loop each and every day ...

Image: Death of the NHS (after David). Rights: Peter BB Davis. Imagine for a moment that you are the newly re-elected Conservative Prime Minister, and you want to launch an inquiry into whether the ...

Far more people will survive cancer in the coming years, the Government has pledged, as it published a new 10-year plan to tackle the disease. The national cancer plan, published in full on Wednesday, ...

Almost all NHS trusts are missing a major cancer target, with some of the worst performers seeing only around half of patients on time, data shows. Figures analysed by the Press Association for 2025 ...

A very active phishing campaign is underway pretending to be from the UK's National Health Service (NHS), alerting recipients that they are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Today, numerous ...

The Government said the rebate costs for companies would fall to 14.5% in 2026 from 22.9% this year. Rebates paid by drugs firms to the NHS are being cut by more than a third next year following the ...