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Lee Peart

Lee Peart

Editor of Healthcare Management

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PREVENTION

MPs 'deeply concerned' over plans to end FGM prevention funding

By Lee Peart 02 December 2025

MPs have expressed deep concerns over plans to end the funding of a ‘flagship programme’ to combat female genital mutilation (FGM).

Private healthcare admissions slow in Q2 2025

By Lee Peart 02 December 2025

There were around 5,000 fewer (-2%) private hospital and clinic admissions in the second quarter of 2025 (April-June), according to the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN).

INTEGRATED CARE

ICB renews agreement with VCFSE sector

By Lee Peart 02 December 2025

Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB has renewed its partnership agreement with the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector.

MENTAL HEALTH

Neighbourhood mental health pilot must be extended, MPs say

By Lee Peart 02 December 2025

MPs have called for the extension of a pilot of six innovative 24/7 neighbourhood mental health centres.

BREAKING NEWS: UK commits to higher NHS medicine costs as part of US trade deal

By Lee Peart 01 December 2025

A trade deal between the US and UK sealed today calls for a 25% rise in the price the NHS pays for new medicines.

REGULATION

Trust fined £200k over death of teenage girl

By Lee Peart 01 December 2025

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £200,000 after pleading guilty to failing to provide safe care and treatment to a 16-year-old girl with severe mental health difficul...

INTEGRATED CARE

Palliative care needs not understood by ICBs, report finds

By Lee Peart 01 December 2025

ICBs are not equipped to understand the palliative and end-of-life care needs of their local populations, according to a panel’s report.

REGULATION

CQC upgrades trust's maternity services

By Lee Peart 01 December 2025

Maternity services at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been upgraded from requires improvement to good following a CQC inspection.

DHSC

Cancelled knee replacement operations costing NHS millions

By Lee Peart 01 December 2025

Avoidable knee replacement operation cancellations are costing the NHS millions and increasing waiting times, according to research.

REGULATION

'Organisation-wide change' promised following damning report

By Lee Peart 01 December 2025

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (CDDFT) has promised ‘organisation-wide change’ and a ‘cultural reset’ after a breast surgery services review found persistent poor clinical practi...

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