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• The ability of Command Centres to pull in streams of real-time data from multiple sources will support Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as its aims reduce unnecessary hospital stays.
• GE Healthcare will aim to increase adoption of the model and this will be supported by evidence of reduced wait times in the US.
• The

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• Political focus in the latter stages of 2018 and early 2019 will be wholly focused on preparing for Brexit, with domestic and foreign policy objectives falling by the wayside.
• Fiscal prudence is likely to be relaxed slightly, as concerns mount over crime rates, and a struggling nationalised health service (NHS).
• Despite a weakened

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• We are maintaining our 2018 real growth forecast for the UK construction industry at 1.6% y-o-y. Brexit related uncertainty remains the largest threat to our forecasts for the UK construction sector.
• The UK is most likely to leave the EU but retain some form of single market and customs union access, which would be supportive of our

Key View: Increasing incidence of labour strike action in the UK and Norwegian offshore infrastructure raises the risk to the timely completion of project timelines as well as the longer term investment attractiveness of the region.

• Unresolved labour disputes raise the risk of disruption to project timelines.
• Further striking and powerful

Key View: Although the UK banking sector has proven resilient to Brexit uncertainty, we warn that with the official exit date less than a year away and little progress on reaching a settlement deal with the EU, industry headwinds are intensifying. While it is difficult to gauge the likelihood and impact of a serious shock to the sector, we believe

Fitch Ratings maintains a stable rating outlook for the UK credit card sector, based on the buffer between UK trusts' current performance and the agency's through the cycle steady-state assumptions.

Our latest UK Credit Card Index shows that the performance of Fitch-rated credit card trusts is largely unchanged from the previous quarter. The three

Fitch Ratings says the 'AAA' ratings of covered bonds' issued by major UK banks are resilient to a deterioration in their environment, notably from Brexit. They benefit from a large cushion against a downgrade of the banks' Issuer Default Ratings (IDR), low maturity mismatches, significant over-collateralisation (OC) buffers and high quality

UK asset managers face a further squeeze on profits from new rules designed to strengthen governance and give investors better value for money.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced on 5 April 2018 that investment managers will have to publish information annually on the value for money of each of their funds, starting in 2019. We expect

Fitch Ratings says it expects no impact on the 'AAA'/Stable rating of Barclays Bank PLC's (BB PLC) mortgage covered bond programme once it is transferred to the ring-fenced entity, Barclays Bank UK PLC (BBUK PLC). 

The ring-fencing transfer scheme under Part VII of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 was approved by the Prudential

The collapse of UK construction company Carillion highlights the importance of contract risk management and of maintaining margins for companies in the European engineering and construction (E&C) sector, Fitch Ratings says. The sector is largely sub-investment grade, but investment-grade ratings are possible where both the business and balance