Health News Digest
21st March 2025
(covering news from the 14th March 2025)
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Health News Digest
47 million demand urgent changes to combat air pollution
Climate change could lead to respiratory problems
Climate change fuelling mental health crisis in areas most affected by climate crisis
UK and China restart climate change dialogue to tackle the global crisis
Integrating future climate change into corporate strategies
Companies with high greenhouse gas emissions more likely to manipulate finances
New data on historic sea level rise will help scientists see into the future of global warming
King's Fund: The reshaping of NHS national bodies has only just started. How will it finish?
King's Fund: What does the NHS Staff Survey 2024 really tell us?
The Health Foundation responds to the Pathways to Work Green Paper
Health Foundation: ‘Perfect’ health system? No such thing
Nuffield Trust - Health in the UK after Brexit: Moving apart or stuck together?
Nuffield Trust - How will staffing numbers be affected by abolishing NHS England?
Repeated failures in reading scans costing lives, ombudsman says
Public data should not conflate sex and gender, review says
Wes Streeting warns hundreds more health quangos could face axe
JRF: Government fails to make moral choice if cuts rob disabled people of a dignified life
JRF: Unchanged bank rate is a blow to people struggling with squeeze on living standards
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Amendment) (Provision of Information) Order 2025
Poorest children missing more school and further behind after Covid
Ministers urged to act as thousands more hit by UK carer’s allowance debts
Benefit cuts will push more people into poverty, warns Citizens Advice boss
Does the ethnicity of mental health research participants reflect the eligible population?
Latest update on Clade Ib mpox
AI could help detect and investigate foodborne illness outbreaks
Whole genome sequencing service launched to tackle hepatitis C
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Notifiable diseases: causative agents reports for 2025
LGA: Let’s be clear with young people about vapes
The Health Foundation responds to the Discovery Phase Report of the ‘Keep Britain Working’ review
NICE: Annual BMI checks recommended for adults with long-term conditions
Repeated failures in reading scans costing lives, ombudsman says
Labour to scrutinise school smartphone bans as pressure grows over impact on teenagers
Only 10% of non-surgical treatments for back problems kill pain, says review
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Syndromic surveillance: weekly summaries for 2025
Weekly all-cause mortality surveillance: 2024 to 2025
GP out-of-hours syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins for 2025
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Excess mortality within England: post-pandemic method
LGA: Let’s be clear with young people about vapes
Smoking rates in parts of England rise for first time since 2006, study shows
‘Brain pacemakers’: implants to be tested to help alcohol and opioid addicts
Poor sleep and drinking too much could drive depression in night owls – study
Smoking rates falling fastest in the north of England
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