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BREAKING NEWS: Health leaders brief London Assembly on measles outbreak response

By Lee Peart 09 March 2026

Health leaders from the NHS, UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and local councils today briefed the London Assembly on how their response to a current measles outbreak in north London.

PEOPLE MOVES

Member appointed to NHS Tayside board

By Liz Wells 09 March 2026

Kris Bryce has been appointed as a member of the NHS Tayside board.

ESTATES

BREAKING NEWS: Private sector capital 'like a reservoir behind a dam', says Lord Hutton

By Lee Peart 09 March 2026

Lord Hutton, chair of the Association of Infrastructure Investors, has called for private capital to be used to develop new hospitals and neighbourhood health centres before the next election.

SOCIAL CARE

Welsh councils urge funding boost to ease social care pressures

By Lee Peart 09 March 2026

Welsh councils have called for additional funding for social care to help break what they describe as a cycle of ‘managing crisis’ across frontline services.

WORKFORCE

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board welcomes new chair

By Liz Wells 09 March 2026

Andrew Morgan has been selected as the new chair of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.

UK GOVERNMENT

Government boosts nursing funding for better community care

By Liz Wells 09 March 2026

The Government has unveiled plans that will see care homes benefit from a funding rise of more than 5% to provide specialist care for some of the most vulnerable.

REGULATION

Urgent and emergency services downgraded by CQC

By Lee Peart 09 March 2026

Urgent and emergency services at Whittington Hospital in north London have been downgraded by the CQC from good to requires improvement.

WORKFORCE

Buckinghamshire Healthcare confirms substantive appointment

By Liz Wells 09 March 2026

Raghuv Bhasin has been appointed substantively as chief executive at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

INTEGRATED CARE

NHS England confirms commissioning transfer delay to ICBs

By Lee Peart 09 March 2026

NHS England has confirmed a one-year delay in the transfer of some commissioning functions to ICBs to April 2027.

REGULATION

Blood pressure medication recall after packaging error

By Lee Peart 09 March 2026

Pharmacy and healthcare professionals are being advised to return all remaining stock of a blood pressure medication following a packaging error.

DIGITAL

Hospitals groups become first to jointly buy ambient voice technology

By Liz Wells 06 March 2026

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) and University Hospitals of Northamptonshire Group (UHN) have become the first in the country to jointly procure AI-powered technology to capture a...