[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 ...

NHS England - which oversees the running of the National Health Service in England - is to be abolished, the Prime Minister announced on Thursday. In a major shake-up of the health service, Keir ...

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 ...

Senior NHS managers have shared more than £300,000 in pay rises as a result of the Government’s reorganisation of the Health Service, despite remaining in apparently identical posts. Department of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The UK government has awarded a further £4 million to expand EV charging across the National Health Service (NHS) in England, ...

Patients in dire need of urgent medical help are facing a postcode lottery of care, according to a damning new report into emergency care services in the NHS in England. Performance in key services ...

NHS managers who silence whistleblowers will be banned from taking up other senior health service roles, the Government has announced. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said the ...

A new “one stop shop” will showcase cutting-edge technologies to NHS hospitals while also slashing red tape, the Government has announced. The digital platform – MedTech Compass – aims to bring ...

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