UK News: Health Bill 2026 modernization will abolish NHS England, introduce Single Patient Record, save 20K A&E visits and £20M; IPO launches Knowledge Asset Management Hub

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The UK government is pushing a major NHS modernization bill that would abolish NHS England and expand local control across the health system. The bill also introduces a Single Patient Record, which would require wider data sharing across GPs and hospitals to improve care coordination and reduce avoidable A&E visits. For health tech and data vendors, the plan creates openings in interoperability, cloud, platform, analytics, and AI integration, while also raising data governance requirements. The article also notes the Intellectual Property Office’s launch of the Knowledge Asset Management Hub, a new resource to help universities and research bodies commercialize IP and other knowledge assets.

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