Second Select Committee Piles Pressure On NHS Over £330m Palantir Contract
A second parliamentary committee has called for the NHS to abandon its £330 million contract with Palantir, adding to mounting political pressure ahead of a 2027 break clause. With incoming Labour leadership reportedly reviewing the government’s wider AI strategy, the federated data platform’s future now looks more uncertain than at any point since it was awarded in 2023. Continue reading Second Select Committee Piles Pressure On NHS Over £330m Palantir Contract
NHS £15bn Capital Plan Targets Estate Repairs and Neighbourhood Health Hubs
The government has set out a decade-long capital strategy that will lift the NHS capital budget to £15bn by 2029/30, with billions earmarked for crumbling estates, RAAC removal and 250 neighbourhood health centres.
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NHS Innovation Inquiry Closes as Burnham’s Care Service Pledge Looms
Preet Kaur Gill MP faced the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee on 7 July 2026 defending an NHS innovation record that may not survive the government she serves. Continue reading NHS Innovation Inquiry Closes as Burnham’s Care Service Pledge Looms
NHS’s £10bn AI Push Raises the Interoperability Question Social Care Keeps Asking
NHS England has confirmed how £10 billion in technology funding will be spent, with AI triage and ambient notetaking taking the headlines. Buried inside the announcement is a Single Patient Record that could matter far more to social care providers than either of those tools, if it is built to actually reach them. Continue reading NHS’s £10bn AI Push Raises the Interoperability Question Social Care Keeps Asking
Why Some Care Homes Are Choosing Risk Over Regulatory Comfort
A Dementia Action Week panel heard that care providers are increasingly willing to challenge regulatory caution in pursuit of better quality of life for residents, from forest walks to garden ponds. The message from Care England and NADCAS was blunt, a tick-box approach to risk is quietly causing the decline it claims to prevent. Continue reading Why Some Care Homes Are Choosing Risk Over Regulatory Comfort
Bedside Brain Imaging Arrives in the UK as Hyperfine Launches Model 2 Swoop
A portable, AI-assisted MRI scanner that can be wheeled to a patient’s bedside has cleared UK regulatory approval, opening the door to brain imaging in settings that have never had access to it. For a system chronically short of radiology capacity, that access question matters as much as the technology itself.
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UK-US Trade Deal Could Divert £45 Billion From NHS Care by 2036
A BMJ analysis warns that the UK-US pharmaceuticals deal could divert up to £45 billion from other NHS services by 2036, with knock-on costs landing squarely on adult social care. For commissioners already stretched thin, the real question is not whether the deal delivers cheaper medicines, but what it quietly takes away.
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Greater Manchester Hospital’s AI Tool Cuts A&E Reattendance By Up To Half
Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust has built its own AI tool to flag which A&E patients are most likely to come back within a month, then routes them into community follow-up before a crisis develops. Continue reading Greater Manchester Hospital’s AI Tool Cuts A&E Reattendance By Up To Half
What CQC’s AI Rules Actually Mean As Care Calling Tech Scales Up
CQC has spent the past year clarifying, rather than inventing, how AI fits into regulated care, and the answer keeps coming back to the same two conditions, human oversight and demonstrable governance. Continue reading What CQC’s AI Rules Actually Mean As Care Calling Tech Scales Up
Children’s Commissioner Calls for SEND Reform as Mental Health Waiting Lists Keep Growing
Over one million children in England were referred to mental health services in the year to March 2025, almost double the figure from six years ago. With suspected autism referrals rising 47% in a single year, the children’s commissioner is demanding SEND reform. Continue reading Children’s Commissioner Calls for SEND Reform as Mental Health Waiting Lists Keep Growing
