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High street pharmacies to offer 'sponge-on-a-string' cancer test

By Lee Peart 09 July 2025

High street pharmacies will offer a ‘sponge-on-a-string’ test as part of a new NHS pilot to help prevent oesophageal cancer.

NEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH

BREAKING NEWS: Neighbourhood health services to target deprived communities

By Lee Peart 09 July 2025

Deprived communities with the greatest need are the first to be targeted with the Government’s roll-out of neighbourhood health services.

PREVENTION

Government-funded projects to help bring healthy food to those who need it most

By Liz Wells 08 July 2025

Households that may struggle to eat nutritious meals due to a lack of accessible healthy options are to receive government support through six projects across the UK, the Science and Technology Pet...

EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS BILL

Employment Rights Bill amendments ban NDAs

By Liz Wells 08 July 2025

Employees who are subject to harassment or discrimination will no longer be silenced by controversial non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), as part of amendments to the Employment Rights Bill.

DENTISTRY

Proposed reforms to dental contract will prioritise those with urgent and complex needs

By Liz Wells 08 July 2025

Patients will find it easier to get an urgent care appointment under planned reforms to incentivise dentists to deliver more NHS work and fix the foundations of dentistry.

BEST PRACTICE

Cancer trial could mean 1m fewer outpatient clinic appointments

By Lee Peart 08 July 2025

A cancel trial at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) could mean 1m fewer outpatient appointments.

INDUSTRIAL ACTION

BREAKING NEWS: Resident doctors in England vote for industrial action 

By Liz Wells 08 July 2025

Resident doctors in England are urging health secretary Wes Streeting to immediately negotiate a new pay deal after voting overwhelmingly in favour of strike action.

REGULATION

Review to determine whether misreported MRI scans contributed to deaths

By Lee Peart 08 July 2025

A review has begun into whether misreported MRI scans contributed to the deaths of 101 patients.

PRIMARY CARE

MPs find medicines shortages now 'systemic threat' to patient care

By Liz Wells 08 July 2025

A new report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Pharmacy calls for urgent reforms to medicines supply, after describing shortages as a 'permanent and escalating feature' of the health...

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