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Lee Peart

Lee Peart

Editor of Healthcare Management

Articles by Lee Peart

Recently formed trust's mental health wards rated requires improvement

By Lee Peart 24 July 2025

North London NHS Foundation Trust’s (NLFT) mental health wards have been rated requires improvement following a CQC inspection in February and March.

Call for better regulation of health self-tests

By Lee Peart 24 July 2025

A call has been made for the much greater regulation of health self-tests after researchers found significant concerns.

Paramedics to offer cardiac arrest video support

By Lee Peart 24 July 2025

Paramedics will offer specialist care via video during the most crucial minutes of a cardiac arrest in a UK first scheme.

Point-of-care medicine manufacturing to deliver personalised treatments

By Lee Peart 24 July 2025

A dedicated legal framework for medicines made at the point of care has been introduced in a ‘world first’ by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

Inquiry into reproductive health launched by committee

By Lee Peart 24 July 2025

A new inquiry into reproductive health conditions among girls and young women has been launched by the Women and Equalities Committee (WEC).

Smaller NHS trusts performing better than larger trusts on FOI requests, regulator finds

By Lee Peart 24 July 2025

Smaller trusts appear to be performing better than larger trusts on answering Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

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North London ICBs agree merger

By Lee Peart 24 July 2025

North Central and North West London ICBs have approved a merger following board meetings this week.

Government must tackle poverty as cause of ill-health, warn MPs

By Lee Peart 24 July 2025

The Government must tackle poverty as a cause of ill-health in order to build a health and social care service that is sustainable, MPs have warned.

Health in all policies

By Lee Peart 23 July 2025

Sharlene McGee, policy manager in the Healthy Lives team at The Health Foundation, says new devolution powers and local growth plans should lay the ground for health in all policies, not just some.

Trust reduces elective care waiting list by 20%

By Lee Peart 23 July 2025

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust has reduced the overall number of patients on its elective care waiting list by 20% over the last nine months.