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Fast-tracked drug to be offered to blood cancer patients

By Lee Peart 13 November 2025

A fast-tracked drug is being offer to patients whose blood cancer has returned or not responded after just one previous course of treatment.

PREVENTION

UKHSA report highlights impact of climate change on mental health

By Liz Wells 12 November 2025

The effects of extreme weather are the biggest climate-related issues affecting mental health in the UK, particularly impacting vulnerable populations who find it increasingly difficult to access t...

PREVENTION

NHS fears 'one of toughest winters' as flu cases triple

By Lee Peart 07 November 2025

Fears the NHS could be facing one of its toughest winters are rising after the flu season began early this year.

PREVENTION

Mayor partners with NHS Confederation on aligning health and economic strategies

By Lee Peart 07 November 2025

Mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, Luke Campbell, is partnering with the NHS Confederation on aligning health and economic prosperity.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

LGA calls for public health budget boost

By Lee Peart 05 November 2025

Local authority leaders are urging the Government to make significant public health funding commitments in the Autumn Budget to help deliver the ‘healthiest generation of children’.

PREVENTION

Employer-led vanguards to tackle workplace ill-health

By Lee Peart 05 November 2025

Employer-led vanguards will drive forward Government plans to get people with ill-health and disabilities back into work.

CHILDHOOD OBESITY

Government won't 'look away' as children become unhealthier

By Liz Wells 04 November 2025

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting says that the government ‘won’t look away as kids become unhealthier’, his comments come as new figures reveal the scale of the childhood obesity prob...

WORKFORCE

Unregistered sonographers 'pose a danger' to mothers and unborn babies

By Liz Wells 04 November 2025

Healthy foetuses are being misdiagnosed as dead or malformed, and pregnant women are facing life-endangering situations, because high-street baby-scan clinics are offering ultrasound scans conducte...

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT

Scottish Government invests £4.8m on type 2 diabetes prevention programme

By Liz Wells 03 November 2025

The Scottish Government is to invest £4.8m on programme to prevent people from developing type 2 diabetes.

PUBLIC HEALTH

Campaign launched to boost children's physical activity

By Lee Peart 03 November 2025

A Government campaign has been launched to boost children’s activity this winter.

PREVENTION

MHRA reforms will speed up path for rare therapies

By Liz Wells 03 November 2025

The rulebook for rare disease therapies will be overhauled to make it quicker and easier to get these therapies tested, manufactured and approved in the UK, the MHRA has announced in a new paper.