4th March 2025

Streeting says NHS ‘not up for grabs’
Streeting says The NHS will not be “on the table” during US-UK trade negotiations. Can we take him at his word? Like Blair before him, is again insisting that the key to improving performance is competition.

Another death from a PA misdiagnosis
A coroner has issued a warning about the role of physician associates after a woman with severe abdominal problems was wrongly diagnosed as having a nosebleed and died four days later.

Invest in the NHS not private sector
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All trusts must use FDP
NHS England has insisted that all trusts must use the Federated Data Platform (FDP). You may know it’s to be developed by US spy ware firm Palantir, owned by Trump supporter Peter Thiel.

Wasteful NHS expenditure in litigation
The North West ambulance Service, together with  has been delivering non-emergency transport since July 2016. However, the four ICBs have jointly decided not to award any contract to any provider at this time. It comes after the procurement received two legal challenges.