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UK Government unveils National Cancer Plan on World Cancer Day

The government has released a National Cancer Plan, which focuses on prevention, earlier diagnosis, workforce capacity and improved survival outcomes across all cancer types, with focus on lung cancer and reducing disparities

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Where NHS England meets social value and priceless networking: the best of healthcare in 2025

Join over 700 professionals at the 2025 Building Better Healthcare Awards in London. Discover key NHS insights, network with leaders, and celebrate the UK's most innovative...
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NHS launches inherited cancer risk detection programme

NHS England has launched a world-first genetics programme to track people at risk of inherited cancers, offering regular checks and personalised screening to improve early detection

IKON Architects wins design contract for paediatric and adult audiology department at Lister Hospital

The architectural practice has been selected by East and North Hertfordshire to design a calming and engaging space for children and families

Quantum Sensing: the science quietly transforming NHS healthcare

In a Building Better Healthcare exclusive, reporter Alexa Hornbeck explores how NHS clinicians are working with researchers to bring quantum sensing tools into patient care
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A national blueprint for NHS diagnostic centres

Richard Mann, Head of Social Infrastructure in Europe and India for AECOM, explores how standardised yet locally responsive templates could help the NHS deliver Community Diagnostic Centres at pace and scale

Southern Water responds to Hastings supply issues after burst in water main

Hastings has been impacted by a burst water main, with the local Conquest Hospital making a statement about patient care

Oxford study estimates that extreme heat and cold linked to £3bn of annual NHS costs

Research published in The Lancet has revealed that extreme winter cold and summer heat drives surges in care, accounting for about 3% of NHS England’s primary and secondary care costs

Outcomes of the five-day NHS resident doctor strike

Negotiations between the British Medical Association and the UK government have continued following the five-day resident doctor strike in December 2025

NHS resident doctors begin five-day strike

Resident doctors employed by the NHS have begun five days of industrial action following the rejection of a government offer

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Driving digital transformation in the NHS: an interview with Professor Sultan Mahmud from BT Business

Professor Sultan Mahmud from BT Business, part of BT Group, talks to Building Better Healthcare about the main challenges that the NHS is facing when it comes to transforming the ageing healthcare infrastructure into a digital one

My Specialist Appinion launches healthcare app to speed specialist referral

The healthcare technology company has launched an app-based platform to connect patients with specialists as an alternative to long NHS waiting times and private fees

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust rolls out CardMedic platform to bridge language barriers

NHS Trust has launched a new digital healthcare communication platform to help patients and staff overcome language barriers and improve health literacy

InHealth offers mobile CT scanner at Withybush Hospital

Welsh government has invested in expanding access to advanced diagnostics for patients, including a mobile CT scanner

New breast cancer hub aims to close East London’s survival gap

Barts Health NHS Trust has announced plans for the new £16.6m centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital to unite all breast-cancer services in one location

Rob Burrow Centre opens in Leeds to support people living with Motor Neurone Disease

The £6.8m Seacroft Hospital facility redefines compassionate, patient-centred care for people living with MND

BBH Awards 2025: The Winners

The industry's leading award ceremony honoured innovators across the building and healthcare sector. Check out the winners below!

Mitie wins £11.8m in NHS contracts to support AI-enabled patient-centric services

The facilities management provider has secured contracts with Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust to support patient-centric services at five healthcare sites

Bupa set to acquire new hospital in Central London

International healthcare company expands its portfolio with the addition of King Edward VII’s Hospital to its network of specialist health institutions

Healthcare Estates 2025: A review

Sophie Bullimore looks back at two days spent at the packed-out event in Manchester, which gathers everyone involved in healthcare estate construction in one lively place

A Single Patient Record: the unsolved challenge, or is it?

Richard Kavanagh, openEHR Board Member and Head of Technology (UK & Ireland) at Better, explains how open data can unlock the NHS’s long-promised Single Patient Record

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AI in healthcare: how do we get from hype to reality, safely and effectively?

The Highland Marketing advisory board met to consider the government’s enthusiasm for AI. To date, healthcare has mostly experimented with decision support tools, and...

Darwin Group launches On-Demand Ultraclean Operating Theatre to help clear NHS elective backlog

Darwin Group, launches a hireable HBN and HTM compliant operating theatre, the first of its kind

Darwin Group launches solution to ‘corridor care’ as NHS bed occupancy rates exceed optimal levels

The UK’s healthcare estates specialist, Darwin Group launches new On-Demand General Ward which could provide trusts with the additional bed capacity needed to treat...

Rethinking the NHS Estate Masterplan

A conversation with Hayley Smith, Strategy and Transformation Director, Darwin Group

Biotech company awarded prestigious Innovate UK grant to expand search for rare disease therapies

SynaptixBio, whose aim is to find a treatment for TUBB4A-related leukodystrophies, has had research to date supported by the world's leading centre for leukodystrophy...

People-focused digital transformation: the key to revolutionise health and care experiences

It’s no secret that the NHS is facing unprecedented challenges. From financial constraints and sustainability management, to workforce shortages and capacity issues, the...

The future of health and care

For decades, our health and care system in the UK has served citizens, generated professional careers, and delivered world-leading care. Traditional ways of working are...

Celebrating excellence in our healthcare facilities workforce: the National MyPorter Awards & MyCleaning Awards return for 2024

It's that time of year again, when the unsung heroes of healthcare are set to bask in the limelight as we proudly announce the resurgence of the MyPorter Awards and...

Imprivata and PFH Technology Group to supply access management to healthcare services across Ireland

Clinicians and healthcare workers across Ireland to benefit from increased security and significant time savings that can be redirected towards providing excellent patient...

Med tech and health tech: strategies and opportunities

The Department of Health and Social Care has just published a strategy for medical technology

Lincolnshire Community Health chooses Civica software to ease care pressures

Scheduling software is improving community care for patients and helping prevent hospital admissions

MAT delivers turnkey modular laboratories at University of Warwick

“These new labs provide world-class facilities for research that will promote better disease control for medicine and for agriculture.” - Richard Napier, Deputy Head...