Health News Digest
25th October 2024
(covering news from the 18th October 2024)
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Health News Digest
‘Failing SEND system in urgent need of reform’ – LGA on NAO report on SEND
Risk of “failing the future” if children and young people don’t get the care they need, CQC warns
Parents urged to catch up on vaccinations
Free school meals trial feeds 20,000 more children
Ammonia: health effects, incident management and toxicology
Aluminium phosphide: health effects and incident management
Hydrogen fluoride: properties, incident management and toxicology
Is vaping bad for you, does it damage the environment and how are the rules changing?
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council – Progress Review
Falling birth rates: a turning point for public services?
Supporting people back to work: the intersection of health and economic policy
Five things the ‘biggest ever conversation about the future of the NHS’ needs to succeed
Reflections of specialty and specialist and locally employed doctors in the NHS
The King's Fund comments on speculation about NHS funding in the upcoming budget
Joint letter to the Chancellor to address spending on prevention
Briefing: Employment Rights Bill
Health Foundation responds to Care Quality Commission State of Care report 2023/24
How much more money does the NHS need?
Chancellor needs to uplift Departmental budget by at least 3.6% just for NHS to “stand still”
Nuffield Trust responds to CQC State of Care report
Patients to get full access to record on NHS App
What do assisted dying, assisted suicide and euthanasia mean and what is the law?
Notifiable diseases: causative agents reports for 2024
Ammonia: health effects, incident management and toxicology
Aluminium phosphide: health effects and incident management
Hydrogen fluoride: properties, incident management and toxicology
COVID-19 vaccination: autumn programme resources
UKHSA priorities in 2024 to 2025
Measles epidemiology 2023 and 2024
Could vaccines end the winter vomiting bug?
Parents urged to catch up on vaccinations
How will weight-loss drugs change our relationship with food?
Heartstopper: 'How Netflix show's eating disorder story helps me'
UK regulator tells doctors to watch out for obesity injection misuse
Free school meals trial feeds 20,000 more children
Latin labelling on cosmetics is a risk to food allergy sufferers, says MP
New Alzheimer’s treatment donanemab does not currently demonstrate value for the NHS says NICE
Experts hope 'repurposed' drugs may limit dementia
How will weight-loss drugs change our relationship with food?
Cancer research 'could stall', says charity
UK regulator tells doctors to watch out for obesity injection misuse
Health Foundation responds to ONS life expectancy data in England and Wales
Sir Chris Hoy’s terminal cancer diagnosis prompts near sevenfold increase for prostate cancer advice
Plea to 'think earlier' about osteoporosis risks
Prostate cancer symptoms and treatment: What to check for
Patients to get full access to record on NHS App
Parents urged to catch up on vaccinations
GPs advise not to ignore scabies symptoms
Is vaping bad for you, does it damage the environment and how are the rules changing?