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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.

ONS

Children in long-term workless households reaches nine-year high

By Liz Wells 30 October 2025

An estimated 1.2 million children (9.4%) lived in long-term workless households last year, up 1.2 percentage points on 2023, new data reveals.

PREVENTION

Scottish Government tackles growing volume of false health information

By Liz Wells 30 October 2025

The Scottish Government has launched a Health Information Integrity Strategy in response to the growing volume of false information and a recommendation from the pandemic advisory group, the Standi...

PHARMACIES

Free 'morning after pill' becomes available at high street pharmacies

By Liz Wells 29 October 2025

Women can access the morning-after pill free of charge on the NHS in high-street pharmacies across England from today (29 October).

NHS ENGLAND

NHS hospitals trial 15-minute blood test for life-threatening conditions in children

By Liz Wells 27 October 2025

A 15-minute blood test, which can fast-track the diagnosis of children with potentially life-threatening conditions, is being trialled by the NHS this winter.