Health News Digest
9th May 2025
(covering news from the 2nd May 2025)
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Health News Digest
JRF - Unlocking the potential of young people furthest from the labour market
JRF - Young people caught in crosshairs of health and disability reforms
‘The crux of all evil’: what happened to the first city that tried to ban smartphones for under-14s?
Non-inherited genes affect children’s development
Study links air pollution to microbial imbalance in children
Why is movement important for children's wellbeing? The psychology behind Moodboosters
Study links air pollution to microbial imbalance in children
Strong climate strategy could correct air pollution inequalities in Europe
How the political consensus on climate change has shattered
Climate and health: health and care systems’ preparedness for the changing climate
Climate change putting millions more people at risk from infection-causing fungi
Methane emissions: House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee report
King's Fund - GP contract 2025/26 explained: funding, incentives and the workforce
King's Fund - GP funding and contracts explained
Digitising the NHS and adult social care: What could it cost?
Nuffield Trust response to Select Committee report on cost of inaction on social care
CQC welcomes the start of the independent commission on adult social care
NHS plans 'unthinkable' cuts to balance books
Plan to modernise 1,000 GP practice buildings
Ministers admit failing to assess impact of thousands of NHS job cuts in England
More than 1m older people in England waited over 12 hours in A&E last year
Profits from NHS England eye care outsourcing same as 100 PFI contracts, research finds
NHS in England urged to become ‘early intervention service’ on cancer
UKHSA publishes new analysis of health inequalities in England
King's Fund - Drop the euphemisms and stop sugarcoating poverty
JRF - Unlocking the potential of young people furthest from the labour market
JRF - Young people caught in crosshairs of health and disability reforms
‘Concerning’ lack of female-only medical trials in UK, say health experts
BMI of 1 million minority ethnic adults in England wrongly classified
Health inequalities in health protection report
Inequality killing on a ‘grand scale’ globally, experts warn
Race and ethnicity often not reported in trials of medications for mental health conditions
Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157: annual totals
National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports: 2024 to 2025 season
Notifiable diseases: causative agents reports for 2025
Measles epidemiology 2023 to 2025
Mpox clade Ib and clade IIb outbreak: epidemiological overview
Pertussis epidemiology in England 2024 and 2025
Listeria monocytogenes: surveillance reports
National norovirus and rotavirus surveillance reports: 2024 to 2025 season
MRSA, MSSA, Gram-negative bacteraemia and CDI: monthly data, 2024 to 2025
Suicide prevention profile updates
NHS Confederation - Investment priorities for mental health 2025
Health Foundation - Do short-stay psychiatric decision units improve mental health crisis care?
Online safety and mental health are more connected than ever before
Race and ethnicity often not reported in trials of medications for mental health conditions
“AI is not the silver bullet for mental health services,” says BPS
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
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