Health News Digest
7th February 2025
(covering news from the 31st January 2025)
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Health News Digest
Cover of vaccination evaluated rapidly (COVER) programme 2024 to 2025: quarterly data
LGA - Children's Mental Health task and finish group: Key findings and recommendations
First patients seen at NHS clinic in Liverpool tackling teenage vaping
Soft spaces out, stick-fighting in: Dutch call for the return of risky play
‘Parents facing barriers and delays in getting mental health help for children’
Obesity profile: statistical commentary on patterns and trends in child height, February 2025
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV): vaccination for older adults
Nuffield Trust: Public expenditure in the last year of life
Nuffield Trust: Over 80% of healthcare cost in the final year of life spent on hospitals
End of life care ‘not working’ for dying people or their families, say campaigners
An omega-3 dose a day could slow ageing process, ‘healthspan’ trial finds
Who can get an NHS Covid jab and what do private jabs cost?
The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2025
Bradford clean air zone saves NHS over £30,000 a month in first year
Air pollution reduces people’s ability to focus on everyday tasks, study finds
Lung cancer diagnoses on the rise among never-smokers worldwide
Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests
Environment and Climate Change Committee launches new inquiry into nitrogen
Most of Europe’s surface water bodies polluted by chemicals, new report shows
Could the UK actually get colder with global warming?
Half a degree rise in global warming will triple area of Earth too hot for humans
Climate warming leads to more frequent tree reproduction at expense of growth
Public Health Grant – LGA response
King’s Fund: Trans people and the NHS: the heat of the debate needs the light of evidence
King’s Fund: NHS priorities for 2025/26: our expert insights
King’s Fund: Designing inclusive and trusted digital health services with people and communities
The King’s Fund responds to the announcement of the Public Health Grant allocations in England
Health Foundation: Public health grant funding – a welcome boost after a decade of neglect
Health Foundation: Health care across Europe – shared challenges, lessons to learn
Nuffield Trust: Response to Public Health Grant allocations for 2025/26
Nuffield Trust: Public expenditure in the last year of life
Nuffield Trust: Over 80% of healthcare cost in the final year of life spent on hospitals
Hospitals experience busiest week of winter so far
BMJ study calls for maximisation of women’s potential in healthcare
More than 500,000 in England waited at least two months for vital cancer care
Wider Determinants of Health: February 2025 update
King’s Fund: Trans people and the NHS: the heat of the debate needs the light of evidence
Women with endometriosis earn less, research shows
Black people in England eight times more likely to be hospitalised with lupus
LGA: Government urged to introduce national health inequalities strategy
Flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports bulletin 2025
Latest update on cases of Clade Ib mpox
Cover of vaccination evaluated rapidly (COVER) programme 2024 to 2025: quarterly data
Confirmed cases of mpox clade Ib in United Kingdom
Respiratory syncytial virus: the green book, chapter 27a
Notifiable diseases: last 52 weeks
Notifiable diseases: weekly reports for 2025
Mpox clade Ib and clade IIb outbreak: epidemiological overview
MRSA, MSSA, Gram-negative bacteraemia and CDI: monthly data, 2024 to 2025
Perinatal mental health condition prevalence
Suicide prevention profile updates
LGA - Children's Mental Health task and finish group: Key findings and recommendations
LGA - Mental health performance, data and insight: Guidance for directors of adult social services
Scientists find that things really do seem better in the morning
Digital mental health technologies guidance launched to help manufacturers and safeguard users
AI and Mental Healthcare – opportunities and delivery considerations
Obesity profile: February 2025 update
Pharmacies require stricter weight-loss jab checks
One in five UK adults have diabetes or pre-diabetes, analysis shows
McDonald’s accused of tough tactics in fights with councils over new branches
An omega-3 dose a day could slow ageing process, ‘healthspan’ trial finds
Full-fat milk sales rise as UK’s appetite for low-calorie options cools
Full-fat milk, semi-skimmed or skimmed: which is healthiest?
Obesity profile: statistical commentary on patterns and trends in child height, February 2025
Map of brain’s appetite centre could enable new treatments for obesity and diabetes
Flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports bulletin 2025
Public Health Outcomes Framework: February 2025 data update
Suicide prevention profile updates
Public Health Grant – LGA response
The King’s Fund responds to the announcement of the Public Health Grant allocations in England
Health Foundation: Public health grant funding – a welcome boost after a decade of neglect
Nuffield Trust: Response to Public Health Grant allocations for 2025/26
Nuffield Trust: Public expenditure in the last year of life
Air pollution reduces people’s ability to focus on everyday tasks, study finds
One in five UK adults have diabetes or pre-diabetes, analysis shows
McDonald’s accused of tough tactics in fights with councils over new branches
Lung cancer diagnoses on the rise among never-smokers worldwide
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
National ambulance syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins 2025
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV): maternal vaccination
Perinatal mental health condition prevalence
LGA - Empowering women: the importance of cervical cancer awareness and early detection
Mesh victims still wait for financial compensation
Women with endometriosis earn less, research shows
Major breast cancer screening AI trial to begin
New endometrial cancer study highlights overlooked risk factors
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