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Lee Peart

Lee Peart

Editor of Healthcare Management

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DIGITAL

Patient Hub and NHS App integration leads to 'national first'

By Lee Peart 18 December 2025

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has become England's first NHS trust to integrate patient initiated follow up (PIFU) appointments into the NHS App.

DHSC

'We will not cut NHS budgets to fund this,' Streeting assures on US pharma deal

By Lee Peart 18 December 2025

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has said NHS budgets and frontline services will not be cut to fund the US pharma deal.

CANCER

Bupa launches specialist cancer centres

By Lee Peart 17 December 2025

Specialist cancer centres for gynaecology and gastroenterology have been launched by Bupa in response to growing demand.

WORKFORCE

NHS braces for damaging wave of strikes

By Lee Peart 17 December 2025

NHS providers are bracing for a damaging wave of strike action in the run up to Christmas in a bitter dispute with the BMA.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Visa rule changes risk care worker exodus, union warns

By Lee Peart 17 December 2025

Plans to triple the time required to apply for indefinite leave to remain in the UK from five to fifteen years could cause a care worker exodus, Unison has warned.

Nurse consultant named president-elect of UK Oncology Nursing Society

By Lee Peart 17 December 2025

Dr Jo Bird, nurse consultant at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and honorary senior lecturer, Division of Clinical Medicine, University of Sheffield, has been elected president-elect of the ...

COMMUNITY

Former care home to help free up hospital beds

By Lee Peart 17 December 2025

University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust has completed the refurbishment of its new community rehabilitation facility, Preston Lodge, to improve patient recovery and free up hospital beds.

COMMUNITY

GPs to offer referral service to abuse victims

By Lee Peart 17 December 2025

GPs will offer a referral service to victims of sexual abuse under support measures announced by the Government.

WORKFORCE

Microbiology workers strike over pay and working hours

By Lee Peart 17 December 2025

Microbiology workers at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust are to strike from 18 to 25 December over pay and working hours.

INTEGRATED CARE

Call for improved integration between primary and secondary care

By Lee Peart 17 December 2025

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have laid out practical steps for improved integration between primary and secondary care in Wales.

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