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Labour Claims Boris Johnson Misled Parliament Over Asymptomatic Covid Claim
Labour Claims Boris Johnson Misled Parliament Over Asymptomatic Covid Claim
Coronavirus
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been accused of misleading the Commons after he claimed ministers were not made aware of asymptomatic Covid transmission.
Brexit Has Left A £30m Funding Black Hole At Medicines Regulator
Coronavirus
Brexit Has Left A £30m Funding Black Hole At Medicines Regulator
Cancer Charities Warn Government Is Failing To Address Chronic NHS Staff Shortages
Health
Cancer Charities Warn Government Is Failing To Address Chronic NHS Staff Shortages
Government Launches £500m Fund For Social Care Using Controversial National Insurance Hike
Health
Government Launches £500m Fund For Social Care Using Controversial National Insurance Hike
MPs Vote To Make At-Home Early Abortion Services Permanent
Health
MPs Vote To Make At-Home Early Abortion Services Permanent
Health Minister Tells Tory MPs Government Does Not Support At Home Abortion Services
Health
Health Minister Tells Tory MPs Government Does Not Support At Home Abortion Services
Wes Streeting Writes To Labour MPs Urging Them To Vote To Maintain At-Home Abortion Services
Health
Wes Streeting Writes To Labour MPs Urging Them To Vote To Maintain At-Home Abortion Services
The House Live
As the cost of living bites, we must make healthy food affordable and accessible for families on low-incomes
Health
By Jo Gideon MP
As the cost of living bites, we must make healthy food affordable and accessible for families on low-incomes
Breaking the stigma of discussing rural mental health Partner content
Environment
By The National Lottery
Breaking the stigma of discussing rural mental health
Rural mental health must be top of our agenda
Coronavirus
By Neil Hudson MP
Rural mental health must be top of our agenda
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MPs Left Puzzled At “Abba Party” Being Abandoned By Sue Gray Investigation
MPs Left Puzzled At “Abba Party” Being Abandoned By Sue Gray Investigation
Political parties
Tory MPs Expect Boris Johnson To Survive Gray Report But Warn That Next Election Will Be Lost
Tory MPs Expect Boris Johnson To Survive Gray Report But Warn That Next Election Will Be Lost
Political parties
Sue Gray Blames 'Failure Of Leadership' For Partygate Scandal As Full Report Is Published
Sue Gray Blames "Failure Of Leadership" For Partygate Scandal As Full Report Is Published
Political parties
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Brexit Has Left A £30m Funding Black Hole At Medicines Regulator
Coronavirus
Brexit Has Left A £30m Funding Black Hole At Medicines Regulator
The UK's medicines regulator has privately warned it has lost tens of millions in revenue as a result of Brexit changes.
The Jeremy Hunt interview: Covid, health care, and what I'd have done differently from Boris Johnson
Coronavirus
By Eleanor Langford
The Jeremy Hunt interview: Covid, health care, and what I'd have done differently from Boris Johnson
Jeremy Hunt wants to ensure the lessons of the pandemic aren’t forgotten. He tells Eleanor Langford where he sees the future of the NHS – and the part he’d like to play in it.
Doctor MPs Say No 10 Party Defence Is An 'Insult' To Sacrifices Made By NHS Staff
Coronavirus
Doctor MPs Say No 10 Party Defence Is An "Insult" To Sacrifices Made By NHS Staff
MPs also working in the medical profession have called Boris Johnson’s defence of events held in Downing Street during lockdown “an absolute joke” and “an insult” to the sacrifices made by NHS staff, many of whom lost their lives to Covid.
Health & Care news
The Henry Dimbleby Interview: Breaking The Junk Food Cycle
Health
By John Johnston
The Henry Dimbleby Interview: Breaking The Junk Food Cycle
As Henry Dimbleby awaits a formal response to his National Food Strategy report, the government’s food tsar explains why state action is crucial if Britain is to break the damaging junk food cycle and reverse the constant rise in obesity figures.
The levelling up white paper lacks the detail and funding needed to address health inequalities
Health
By Katherine Merrifield and Gwen Nightingale
The levelling up white paper lacks the detail and funding needed to address health inequalities
The “levelling up” express was long overdue. Passengers were close to giving up and wondering if they needed to make their own way to their destinations. Three years later and the white paper is finally here.
Boris Johnson Announces Plans To End All Covid Legal Restrictions A Month Early
Coronavirus
Boris Johnson Announces Plans To End All Covid Legal Restrictions A Month Early
Rules around self-isolation for positive cases could be dropped early, Boris Johnson has said.
Health Minister Has Apologised For Attending Meeting After Positive Covid Test
Coronavirus
Health Minister Has Apologised For Attending Meeting After Positive Covid Test
Health minister Gillian Keegan has apologised for continuing an in-person meeting despite knowing she had returned a positive for Covid-19 with a lateral flow test.
Why we need a plan to 'level up' oral health and fight regional inequalities Partner content
Health
By Mars Wrigley
Why we need a plan to 'level up' oral health and fight regional inequalities
Analysis of health data conducted by the Wrigley Oral Healthcare Programme has found significant oral health disparities across the country. To tackle the problem and avoid worsening inequalities, the nation needs a plan to level up oral health, improve access to dental care and increase education around preventative methods.
The Last Workplace Taboo: Women's Experiences Of Endometriosis, Adenomyosis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Health
By Kate Proctor
The Last Workplace Taboo: Women's Experiences Of Endometriosis, Adenomyosis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Endometriosis, adenomyosis and polycystic ovary syndrome are painful conditions that affect one in 10 women. For many, the workplace remains a challenging environment to be upfront about their illness in. Kate Proctor, who has adenomyosis, looks at women’s experiences and what needs to change.
Health inequalities leave those in deprived regions most at risk of cancer Partner content
Health
By [email protected]
Health inequalities leave those in deprived regions most at risk of cancer
Financial and health inequalities are seeing cancer care in the most deprived regions of the UK fall behind – so how can we level up prevention, diagnosis, and treatment?
Levelling up will fail if it does not improve lung health
Health
By Sarah Woolnough
Levelling up will fail if it does not improve lung health
The government’s levelling up white paper sets high ambitions to improve the health and living standards for everybody in the UK by 2030.
Tackling the NHS waiting list backlog will mean taking tough – and unpopular – decisions
Health
By Lord Warner
Tackling the NHS waiting list backlog will mean taking tough – and unpopular – decisions
A National Audit Office (NAO) report published in December 2021 found nearly six million people in England on waiting lists for elective care. Of these, 300,000 of them had been waiting for more than a year; and about a quarter of patients with an urgent GP referral for cancer were waiting two months or more to start treatment.
Partner content
Health
By Save the Children
UK’s major children’s charities respond to Levelling Up White Paper
Save the Children, The Children’s Society, Barnardo’s, Action for Children and the National Children’s Bureau have released a joint statement in response to the Government's Levelling Up White Paper released today:
Ministers need to start taking the debilitating condition that is long Covid seriously
Coronavirus
By Andrew Gwynne MP
Ministers need to start taking the debilitating condition that is long Covid seriously
Back in March 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, I contracted Covid-19.
The NHS Must Direct Resources Into Earlier Cancer Diagnosis
Coronavirus
By John Baron MP
The NHS Must Direct Resources Into Earlier Cancer Diagnosis
It is vital the NHS strains every sinew to detect cancers that may have gone undiagnosed during the pandemic.
Partner content
Environment
By Polic[email protected]
How to build healthy cities
Cities are key places. Changing the way we plan and develop cities will be essential to meet our net zero targets as well as improve the health and lives of people in urban areas. In this blog, Professor James Evans, Dr Luke Munford, Professor David Topping, Professor Sheena Cruickshank and Dr Jamie Anderson explore the interlinked challenges of climate change, health and urban development, and outline policy recommendations to build healthier, climate-resilient cities.
The kind of death you experience has become a postcode lottery
Health
By John Johnston
The kind of death you experience has become a postcode lottery
The only guarantee in life, as the saying goes, is death. But how we die, and whether we enjoy the privilege of a “good death,” has no certainty at all. Across the UK, the experience of our final weeks has increasingly become a postcode lottery, influenced by location, condition, age, ethnicity and wealth.
Government Will Confirm In 'The Next Few Days' If Mandatory Jabs For NHS Staff Will Be Dropped
Coronavirus
Government Will Confirm In "The Next Few Days" If Mandatory Jabs For NHS Staff Will Be Dropped
Government will decide whether to reverse its controversial policy on mandatory Covid vaccines for NHS staff in England “in the course of the next few days”.
Where Are They Now? Former Lib Dem MP Paul Burstow
Health
By Georgina Bailey
Where Are They Now? Former Lib Dem MP Paul Burstow
Paul Burstow, Liberal Democrat MP for Sutton and Cheam (1997 - 2015)
NHS dentistry is in crisis as an exodus of dentists has left many without access to treatment
Health
By Navendu Mishra MP
NHS dentistry is in crisis as an exodus of dentists has left many without access to treatment
This time last year, it was reported that there was a 22 per cent increase in complaints about NHS dental care. From the sheer cost of treatment to the lack of availability of appointments, people are sick to their back teeth that the mere fact of maintaining good oral hygiene is seemingly a luxury out of reach for many.
Partner content
Health
By [email protected]
Incorporating health and wellbeing into housing developments
Despite the health, social and environmental benefits of high-quality housing developments, delivering healthy and sustainable homes and neighbourhoods remains a challenging task. In this blog, Caglar Koksal outlines how housing developers and local authorities can work together to create healthy, high-quality homes while also addressing long-standing health and housing inequalities.
A cross-government strategy is vital to tackle growing health inequalities and level up
Health
By Peter Dowd MP
A cross-government strategy is vital to tackle growing health inequalities and level up
The pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the inequalities that have existed in our society for far too long.
Failing to address the cancer backlog could see survival rates fall for the first time in decades
Health
By Barbara Keeley MP
Failing to address the cancer backlog could see survival rates fall for the first time in decades
The Health and Social Care Select Committee has just held the last of its evidence sessions in its current inquiry into cancer services in England.
Healthcare professionals lack sufficient training and awareness of sickle cell disease
Health
By Florence Eshalomi MP
Healthcare professionals lack sufficient training and awareness of sickle cell disease
Sickle cell is an inherited disease. When parents both carry the sickle cell trait, it is a cruel game of chance as to whether children inherit the trait but remain asymptomatic, have no trait at all, or have to live with symptomatic sickle cell disease.
NHS recovery must not leave heart patients behind Partner content
Health
By British Heart Foundation
NHS recovery must not leave heart patients behind
The coronavirus pandemic has posed a huge challenge to health systems across the globe. As the government seeks to invoke a 'catch-up' programme for patients left behind in the pandemic, the British Heart Foundation is working to ensure heart patients are made a priority.
On gambling reform, the Government should ignore the extremists and stick with evidence Partner content
Health
By Betting And Gaming Council
On gambling reform, the Government should ignore the extremists and stick with evidence
New figures from a YouGov poll published last week showed that fewer that one in five people would be happy to accept arbitrary checks on their finances, like accessing bank statements and pay cheques, in order to be able to have a bet. These so-called ‘affordability checks’ are just one of a number of measures being discussed as part of the Government's ongoing review of gambling.
By investing in the right treatment and after-care for stroke survivors, we could improve patient outcomes and save the NHS money
Health
By Sir Robert Neill MP
By investing in the right treatment and after-care for stroke survivors, we could improve patient outcomes and save the NHS money
To begin with, an admission: prior to summer 2019 my knowledge of stroke, like many, was somewhat limited.
EventsAll
Building a better future – Preparing for biodiversity net gain
2022
Building a better future – Preparing for biodiversity net gain
Revitalising High Streets
2022
Revitalising High Streets