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Lee Peart

Lee Peart

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ESTATES

Imperial College Healthcare completes CDC expansion

By Lee Peart 27 October 2026

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has completed the expansion of Wembley community diagnostic centre (CDC) offering an extra 26,000 MRI scans each year.   

ICB

ICB refutes report it plans to cut beds by 9%

By Lee Peart 27 October 2026

NHS West and North London (WNL) ICB has said it has no plans to reduce its hospital beds by 9% over the next 10 years.

WORKFORCE

Ambulance control rooms handle record call numbers

By Lee Peart 27 October 2026

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) emergency call handlers answered a record breaking 1.5m calls in 20225/26.

INTEGRATED CARE

AJM Healthcare wins ICB wheelchair services contract

By Lee Peart 26 October 2026

AJM Healthcare has been awarded a contract by NHS Black Country ICB to provide a wheelchair service in Dudley.

PREVENTION

MPs urge Government to boost weight loss drugs access

By Lee Peart 26 October 2026

MPs have urged the Government to boost access to weight loss drugs to end a two-tier system determined by ability to pay.

HSSIB

HSSIB abolition dropped from Health Bill

By Lee Peart 26 October 2026

Plans to abolish the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) and merge its functions with the CQC have been dropped in a Health Bill amendment.

WORKFORCE

BREAKING NEWS: Consultants announce strike action

By Lee Peart 26 October 2026

Medical consultants in England have announced strike action in November in a dispute over pay.

WORKFORCE

Leeds Teaching Hospitals appoints permanent chief executive

By Lee Peart 26 October 2026

Brendan Brown has been appointed chief executive of Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

REGULATION

Shortfalls in safety risk management found at trust

By Lee Peart 26 October 2026

Shortfalls in the consistency of safety risk management have been found in a CQC inspection of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.

INTEGRATED CARE

ICBs to receive £34m to expand domestic abuse services

By Lee Peart 26 October 2026

Twelve ICBs will receive a total of up to £34.4m over three years to commission or expand local specialist services and strengthen referral pathways between general practices and domestic abuse and...

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