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News in-depthHealthcare
Wealthier adults drive sharp rise in demand for ADHD drugs
...The Department of Health and Social Care has pledged to spend £2.3bn a year to expand mental health services in England by spring 2024....
February 3, 2024
News in-depthNational Health Service
NHS paying private sector to carry out more medical operations
...Timothy Wilton, NJR medical director, said the increase in people paying for private healthcare themselves was “an indication of a failing system as waiting lists had increased so dramatically”....
December 3, 2023
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Drones
NHS to pioneer drone deliveries in bid to improve service
...San Francisco-based Zipline is awaiting final regulatory approval for the service from the Civil Aviation Authority....
December 18, 2023
Johnson & Johnson Co Inc
Johnson & Johnson buys device maker Shockwave for $13.1bn
...global standard of care for patients,” said Shockwave president and chief executive Doug Godshall....
April 5, 2024
UK social care
Plan to reform social care has ‘gone awry’, say MPs
...The Department of Health and Social Care said: “We are committed to reforming adult social care and have invested up to an additional £8.6bn over two years to meet the pressures facing the sector, grow the...
March 20, 2024
Healthcare
Investors eye opportunities in Labour pledge to boost private health sector
...The future of the health service will be a key political battleground ahead of the next general election....
February 20, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
News in-depthCoronavirus treatment
Scientists grapple with long Covid puzzle as millions fall sick
...Ziyad Al-Aly, R&D chief at Veterans Affairs St Louis Health Care System and clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St Louis, discovered that patients in the VA’s extensive database who had recovered...
February 15, 2024
Emily Jackson
The UK’s assisted dying debate is reaching a tipping point
...surprising that the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee recently concluded that the UK government should consider how to respond to a divergence in the law within the UK and its crown dependencies...
March 9, 2024
Special ReportFuture of AI
Healthcare professionals demonstrate immunity to AI
...McKinsey attributes these strengths to “gen AI’s truly multimodal nature: foundational models are built not just on language but also on images, omics [data analysis of an entire biological system], patient...
March 26, 2024
French politics
Macron backs ‘right to die’ law
...An eligible person would need a medical diagnosis of a terminal illness, which contrasts with some assisted suicide systems, where the individual has more freedom to decide....
March 11, 2024
The Big Read
The costly, controversial outsourcing of NHS mental health services
...Part of what is driving the trend is a rapid increase in demand for mental health services, which poses a problem not just for the health system but the wider economy....
January 8, 2024
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
The surprising public health benefit of unemployment
...It may occur that all this is something we might care to do anyway as part of decarbonising the energy system and limiting climate change....
March 8, 2024
UK social care
Private care home closures in England raise concern over quality of provision
...Campaigners and health leaders have warned that the sector is under massive strain and action is urgently needed to tackle a chronic workforce crisis, with demand for social care rising because of an ageing...
March 12, 2024
Drug prices
Rare genetic disease therapy becomes world’s most expensive drug at $4.25mn
...Orchard’s MLD treatment was given list prices of up to $3.9mn when it was approved across Europe in 2020 under the brand name Libmeldy, but national health systems negotiated steep discounts....
March 20, 2024
Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
Banks need to wake up to powers of attorney demands
...loved one’s worsening health....
February 21, 2024
FT Live
Building an AI-First Organisation
How can business leaders use AI to drive value?
Thursday, 25 AprilHôtel Lutetia, Paris, France
Health
‘Epidemic of obesity’ blights children as global rates soar
...Increasing obesity was a “phenomenon that has huge implications for healthcare systems, associated economic costs and mental health”, she added....
February 29, 2024
Biotech
Gene-editing pioneer calls for big investment in Crispr technology
...sequence Crispr-Cas9 in 2012, told the Financial Times she would “love to see the day when Crispr is a standard of care for certain kinds of diseases”....
March 21, 2024
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence promises to transform diagnosis of heart disease
...The goal of the AI stethoscope, designed by US company Eko Health, is to close these gaps and save the lives of heart patients who end up needing emergency care in hospital....
December 29, 2023
Pharmaceuticals sector
EU rules drive pharma backers to the US, says Irish investment chief
...Neale Richmond, a junior minister at the department of enterprise, said life sciences are “a really important industry for Ireland” and its own authorities must “regulate faster to see the amazing drugs...
April 3, 2024
InterviewWes Streeting
NHS should ‘seek to use’ private healthcare capacity, Wes Streeting says
...“It should not be the case that people have to tout their wares from trust to trust, from system to system,” Streeting said....
March 24, 2024
Chinese society
Millions drop out of China’s state health insurance system
...Scholars including Jonathan Gruber, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have called for Chinese authorities to invest to improve coverage....
December 10, 2023
Brazil
Brazil rolls out dengue vaccines as cases rise sharply
...Nísia Trindade, Brazil’s health minister, said: “Now is the time for all of Brazil to unite against dengue. This is the time to intensify care and prevention . . ....
February 25, 2024
UK
UK measles outbreak reveals need to boost child vaccine uptake
...The NHS has said it is contacting millions of parents and care givers to book their children in for missed MMR jabs....
January 27, 2024
UK politics
UK borders watchdog says visa regime put care workers at risk
...Rishi Sunak’s government has presided over an “inappropriate” visa system for care workers that left migrants to the UK vulnerable to “shocking” exploitation, according to the borders and immigration watchdog...
March 26, 2024
National Health Service
Ambulance arrivals soar as strikes stoke tensions in England’s NHS
...Professor Julian Redhead, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Urgent and Emergency Care, warned that with an unprecedented walkout of six consecutive days by junior doctors, the pressure was “not...
January 5, 2024

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