The UK's publicly funded healthcare system, providing most medical services in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland free at the point of use.
Palantir's Tom Watson, a former Labour deputy leader, warned against 'mob rule' in procurement as MPs and unions press to drop a £330m NHS deal. Any exit ministers choose now carries legal risk as well as political cost.
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Professor Peter Fonagy's review finds distress among young people has risen substantially and cites a £300bn cost of mental-ill-health absence to work. For employers hiring young staff, its waiting-list figures bear on support policy sooner than the headline cost does.
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UCL researchers tracking 87,857 people over 2009-2024 found distress jumped after the Brexit vote and first lockdown, then stayed above pre-2016 levels. Scores had been rising since 2009, so the study is firmer on those jumps than on what kept distress high.
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UK ministers accepted all 44 recommendations of the AI health commission, moving device oversight from a one-off pre-market check to lifetime monitoring. Firms get an earlier NHS testbed in exchange for lifetime evidence duties the regulator has yet to define.
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UK tech firms have asked the government for at least £20bn over five years, partly as procurement guarantees, to build sovereign AI capacity. If the government adopts the procurement rules they propose, public buyers would weigh domestic AI suppliers differently.
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Palantir's NHS Federated Data Platform deal has a break clause that would end it in 2027, but three Whitehall sources told WIRED the changeover has to be decided within weeks. The rest of its £670m UK book is untouched.
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IDC credits multi-agent deployments for European AI growth it puts at 35% a year through 2030, arriving while most high-risk obligations are already in force and the remainder apply from 2 August 2027.
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AI-assisted code analysis keeps finding old bugs in software that certified and unsupported OT cannot update. Talos answers with deep packet inspection on the path in and VLAN segmentation built on how little OT talks.
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The Swedish company's headset beat a sham device on remission at 10 weeks in a 174-person trial. In the US it is prescription-only and cash-pay, at $2,200 for the first course and $325 a month after that.
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A natural experiment at the October 2017 vaccine changeover gives the cardiovascular claim a cleaner comparison group. It also means nobody has yet measured Shingrix against no vaccine.
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The UK has six months to decide whether to end a $400M-plus NHS contract, and one region's refusal to onboard the Federated Data Platform is the argument's only working counterexample.
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Deborah Cohen's "Bad Influence" argues that engagement-ranked content now shapes what patients expect from care. Her remedy sits with the reader, not the ranking system.
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