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09/12/2016 - 11:13
New figures sealed by the NSPCC have shown that nearly 19,000 children and young people were hospitalised for self-harm last year.
09/12/2016 - 10:53
A medical study has warned that the number of people diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer will rise year-on-year by 2025.
09/12/2016 - 10:28
The Department of Health, NHS Employers and ambulance unions have agreed paramedics will be re-banded nationally from band 5 to band 6.
08/12/2016 - 15:50
New rules banning the advertising of junk food or drink products in children’s media have been announced.
08/12/2016 - 15:22
Professor Dame Sally Davies has called on the baby boom generation to keep working in order to stay healthy.
08/12/2016 - 14:36
A new report has claimed that approximately one in 10 children in London suffer with significant mental ill health.
07/12/2016 - 12:37
A new report by meal supplier apetito has revealed that 82 per cent of older consumers are confused by government advice on healthy eating.
07/12/2016 - 12:09
Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Flynn Pharma have been fined nearly £90 million for charging excessive prices for an anti-epilepsy drug.
07/12/2016 - 10:17
NHS England has announced the first wave of hospitals that will benefit from a major national investment in NHS radiotherapy machines.
07/12/2016 - 10:08
New guidance from the NICE has argued that end of life care should be available for the whole family, and not just the dying child.
07/12/2016 - 09:50
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) have launched a Christmas campaign to get more people to sign up to the organ donor register.
07/12/2016 - 09:19
More than one in 10 patients in England face long delays for a hospital bed after emergency admission, figures show.
06/12/2016 - 10:40
A new survey has shown that 31 per cent of GP partners in England have been unable to fill staff vacancies during the past 12 months.
06/12/2016 - 10:26
Vulnerable older people should be offered befriending programmes or exercise classes to prevent loneliness, experts have said.
06/12/2016 - 10:15
The UK government has published draft legislation for a tax on sugar-sweetened drinks, which is set to begin from April 2018.
06/12/2016 - 09:39
Scientists from Austria have claimed that the regular use of Caesarean sections is having an impact on human evolution.
02/12/2016 - 10:54
NHS England has announced that a further 1,000 GP practices are to benefit from its funding to support vulnerable practices by the end of March, in addition to 900 practices that have already been given help.
02/12/2016 - 10:30
Barnsley Council has to be criticised over claims it has denied nurses and health visitors an extra day’s holiday, which was awarded to council staff as a reward for achieving a gold award from Investors in People.
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