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Lee Peart

Lee Peart

Editor of Healthcare Management

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REGULATION

Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations programme to continue to 2030

By Lee Peart 19 March 2026

The Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations (MNSI) programme will continue to at least 2030, the DHSC has confirmed.

PREVENTION

BREAKING NEWS: UKHSA announces further rise in meningitis cases

By Lee Peart 19 March 2026

The number of meningitis cases following the Kent outbreak has increased to 27, according to the UKHSA.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

ICB savings risk shifting care costs to councils, think-tank warns

By Lee Peart 19 March 2026

An ICB’s £277m savings programme for 2025/26 risks shifting care costs to local councils and residents, the Nuffield Trust has warned.

SOCIAL CARE

Visiting rights in hospitals and care homes to be strengthened

By Lee Peart 19 March 2026

Visiting rights in hospitals, care homes and hospices are to be strengthened under Government legislation.

REGULATION

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.

MENTAL HEALTH

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.

ASSISTED DYING

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.

DHSC

Neighbourhood health targets set out by NHSE

By Lee Peart 18 March 2026

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

INTEGRATED CARE

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.

DHSC

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’.

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