Health News Digest
28th March 2025
(covering news from the 21st March 2025)
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Health News Digest
Cover of vaccination evaluated rapidly (COVER) programme 2024 to 2025: quarterly data
LGA - Active Young People: Support Resources
Big drop in child surgery for swallowed objects
Experts call for second-hand smoke protection for children at home
Preadolescent obesity risk in offspring reduced by breastfeeding
King's Fund: The NHS budget and how it has changed
King's Fund: Cents and sensibility: Micro financial incentives in the GP contract
King's Fund: What should national policy-makers do to make care closer to home a reality?
King's Fund: Call for overhaul of targets and funding regime to secure future of the NHS
The King’s Fund responds to the Spring Statement
Health Foundation: Chancellor's cuts risk compromising people’s health
Health Foundation: Taking a chainsaw to NHS England is not the sign of a healthy state
NHS software provider fined £3m over data breach after ransomware attack
Thousands have sought second opinion after NHS hospitals adopted Martha’s rule, MPs hear
JRF - Factsheet: Health-related benefit cuts
JRF - How health-related benefit cuts add up
JRF - Cuts to push 250,000 into poverty as living standards for the poorest under continuing assault
Nuffield Trust - Health in the UK after Brexit: Moving apart or stuck together?
Tracking the impacts of disadvantage from youth to adulthood
People from disadvantaged backgrounds have COVID-19 symptoms for longer
Landmark report addressing women's reproductive health inequalities, action is needed
Imported dengue cases reach record high
Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea cases rising in England
UKHSA publishes first annual report summarising latest infectious disease trends
UKHSA highlights pathogens of greatest risk to public health
Seasonal influenza vaccine uptake in GP patients: monthly data, 2024 to 2025
Health Protection Report volume 19 (2025)
Notifiable diseases: last 52 weeks
Notifiable diseases: weekly reports for 2025
National norovirus and rotavirus surveillance reports: 2024 to 2025 season
Group A streptococcal infections: seasonal activity in England, 2024 to 2025
Meningococcal disease: laboratory-confirmed cases in England 2024 to 2025
Measles, mumps and rubella: lab-confirmed cases in England 2024
Notifiable diseases: causative agents reports for 2025
Infectious diseases impacting England: 2025 report
UK experts urge prioritising research into 24 types of deadly pathogen families
Study casts doubt on gluten as cause of gut ailments among non-coeliacs
Are whole-grain foods really healthier?
The truth about cholesterol: 12 things you need to know – from eggs to weight to statins
Type 2 diabetes increases risk of liver and pancreatic cancers, study shows
Research shows weight loss doubles with early use of anti-obesity medication
Preadolescent obesity risk in offspring reduced by breastfeeding
Scientists develop injection for long-lasting contraceptive implant
Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says
New study finds an epilepsy drug could be affective for people with depression
Research shows weight loss doubles with early use of anti-obesity medication
LGA - Active Young People: Support Resources
People doing intense exercise experience time warp, study finds
Wild swimming boosts mental health more than open air pools
New mums advised to do two hours of vigorous exercise a week to reduce health risks
Daily physical activity, even at light intensities, linked to lower cancer risk
Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea cases rising in England
STI quarterly surveillance reports: provisional data
Fertility patients sold unproven add-ons, HFEA says
Scientists develop injection for long-lasting contraceptive implant
Landmark report addressing women's reproductive health inequalities, action is needed
GP in-hours: weekly bulletins for 2025
Emergency department: weekly bulletins for 2025
Syndromic surveillance: weekly summaries for 2025
Weekly all-cause mortality surveillance: 2024 to 2025
GP out-of-hours syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins for 2025
Remote health advice: weekly bulletins for 2025
Researchers develop AI tool that could speed up coeliac disease diagnosis
Smartwatches may help control diabetes through exercise
Government-backed technologies support those living with dementia
Perceived 'burden' of AI greatest threat to uptake in healthcare, study shows
AI could help sonographers identify abnormalities in unborn babies more quickly
RSV immunisation for older adults and pregnant women: vaccine coverage in England
Baby slings unsafe for hands-free feeding, charities warn
Fertility patients sold unproven add-ons, HFEA says
Exercise and screen time advice for new mothers angers parenting groups
New mums advised to do two hours of vigorous exercise a week to reduce health risks
Landmark report addressing women's reproductive health inequalities, action is needed
AI could help sonographers identify abnormalities in unborn babies more quickly
Type 2 diabetes can worsen breast cancer outcomes
Newly identified biomarker could improve treatment for people with rare type of ovarian cancer
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