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Lee Peart

Lee Peart

Editor of Healthcare Management

Articles by Lee Peart

Patients to get new medicines up to six months earlier

By Lee Peart 18 March 2026

Patients are to get some new medicines up to six months earlier under a streamlined approval process launched by the MHRA and NICE.

Links between child and parental mental health revealed

By Lee Peart 18 March 2026

ONS analysis has explored the links between child and parental mental health, and school outcomes.

Scottish Parliament votes against assisted dying

By Lee Peart 18 March 2026

Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) have voted against an assisted dying bill.

Neighbourhood health targets set out by NHSE

By Lee Peart 18 March 2026

Targets for the neighbourhood health programme have been announced by NHSE.

Hospices face 'funding cliff-edge', MPs warn

By Lee Peart 18 March 2026

Hospices face a ‘funding cliff-edge’ in April with the Government and NHS England failing to respond with the urgency the critical situation demands, MPs have warned.

BREAKING NEWS: 'Not currently a national incident,' Streeting reassures on meningitis

By Lee Peart 18 March 2026

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has said the meningitis outbreak which has so far claimed two lives in Canterbury is ‘not currently a national incident’.

New disability benefits fall but remain above pre-pandemic levels

By Lee Peart 17 March 2026

New disability benefit awards continue to fall but remain well above pre-pandemic levels, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

Leicester General Hospital launches state-of-the-art MRI scanner

By Lee Peart 17 March 2026

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) has unveiled the UK’s first Canon Vantage Galan 3T/Supreme Edition MRI at an opening ceremony.

ICBs decided to combine children's and adult's A&E services

By Lee Peart 17 March 2026

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside and NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICBs have decided to combine children’s and adult’s A&E services at Southport Hospital.

BMA staff vote for strike action

By Lee Peart 17 March 2026

Hundreds of staff employed by the BMA have voted for strike action.