On this week’s podcast, with increasing examples of staff accessing patient records inappropriately, we ask how widespread this practice really is – and whether regulators need to do more.
And we dig into the NHS’s elective recovery figures, which show a dramatic improvement in the final month of the year, helping the service meet its headline government target by the narrowest of margins.
With Henry Anderson, Zoe Tidman and James Illman.
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