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[London, UK] The National Audit Office has urged the NHS and the Department of Health to ‘get their act together’ and strengthen cyber defence capabilities of the health service in England following ...
The WannaCry ransomware cyber attack cost the National Health Service almost £100m and led to the cancellation of 19,000 appointments, the Department of Health has revealed. A patch to protect against ...
Full steam ahead for NHS bonfire of bureaucrats as Streeting finds £1billion for redundancy payments
The NHS bonfire of bureaucrats was finally ignited today after Wes Streeting unlocked the £1billion needed to fund 18,000 redundancies. The health secretary will use the money to axe layers of ...
NHS bosses who stop whistleblowers from speaking out could lose their jobs or be barred from working in the health service altogether. Under new proposals announced by the government this week, ...
Jeremy Hunt has been blasted for failing to ensure the NHS recovers millions of pounds owed to it by foreigners who have received medical treatment while in the UK. In a damning report, the Commons ...
LONDON — The U.K. government began courting U.S. data and surveillance firm Palantir to work on ways to tap patient data from the National Health Service back in January 2019, according to documents ...
Thousands of jobs faced the axe last night after Sir Keir Starmer announced NHS England will be scrapped in a bid to slash red tape. He hopes that ditching the ‘world’s largest quango’ will save ...
A new statutory duty of candour making health bosses legally accountable for responding to concerns about patient safety could also be introduced as part of proposals made by the Health Secretary. A ...
The system for recovering cash from overseas patients who use the NHS is "chaotic", MPs have said as they urged the Government to "get a grip" on the issue. In a damning report, MPs from the Commons ...
The number of desperate patients unable to access an NHS dentist has tripled to a record 13 million from 2019, data shows. More than one in four adults in England are estimated to have an unmet dental ...
NHS Continuing healthcare is awarded when a person is classed as having a ‘primary health need’, meaning their care needs should be met and funded by the NHS. Most people requiring care and support ...
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