Health News Digest
14th March 2025
(covering news from the 7th March 2025)
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Health News Digest
King's Fund: The reshaping of NHS national bodies has only just started. How will it finish?
King's Fund: The King's Fund responds to government plans to abolish NHS England
The King’s Fund responds to the NHS Staff Survey
The Health Foundation responds to the announcement that NHS England will be abolished
Health Foundation: NHS waiting list falls but remains stubbornly high
Nuffield Trust: The reasons for NHS England's rise and fall are not going away
NHS England to be scrapped: Nuffield Trust responds
The National Health Service (Dental Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
BBC: Abolishing NHS England is radical - why do it?
Streeting’s ‘shock’ at scale of NHS struggles inspires big political gamble
Health Foundation: How racism affects health
JRF: Health-related benefit cuts
Children 'left behind' by covid, says charity
‘I had no voice’: black mental health patients on surviving a care system they say is racialised
Mental ill-health is behind soaring disability benefits bill in England and Wales, report says
IFS: The role of changing health in rising health-related benefit claims
LGA: Healthy inequalities - Breast cancer screening rates in Dudley and Netherton PCN
Whole genome sequencing service launched to tackle hepatitis C
National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports: 2024 to 2025 season
Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157: annual totals
Notifiable diseases: last 52 weeks
Notifiable diseases: weekly reports for 2025
Measles epidemiology 2023 to 2025
Pertussis epidemiology in England 2024 and 2025
National norovirus and rotavirus surveillance reports: 2024 to 2025 season
Hepatitis C in England and the UK
Notifiable diseases: causative agents reports for 2025
The Health Protection (Notification) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
Measles highest in 25 years in Europe, WHO says
Covid, five years on: UK ‘still not ready to protect the population
King's Fund: It's time to start talking openly about the impact of money worries
‘I had no voice’: black mental health patients on surviving a care system they say is racialised
Urgent adult mental health crisis referrals in England double in a year
Mental ill-health is behind soaring disability benefits bill in England and Wales, report says
Mental health charities struggling to cope with GP-referral influx
ADHD prescriptions in England have risen by 18% each year since pandemic
NHS Confederation responds to IFS report suggesting mental health has worsened since the pandemic
Culturally-adapted therapy improved postnatal depression in British South Asian women
Poor sleep may fuel conspiracy beliefs, according to new research
Children under eight should avoid drinking slushies, doctors warn
Marriage triples risk of obesity in men – but not women, study reveals
Is apple cider vinegar actually good for you?
Britons snacking less as they drift back to office after pandemic
Sizing up: how stadiums, hospitals and airlines are adapting to rise in obesity
Nutritionist reveals exact time of day to stop drinking coffee
NICE: Green light for groundbreaking personalised cancer therapy that reprogrammes immune system
NICE: First licensed treatment for ultra-rare immune disorder recommended
NICE: First daily pill for endometriosis approved for NHS use
The Medicines (Products for Human Use) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
MS patients in England to benefit from major roll out of take-at-home pill
ADHD prescriptions in England have risen by 18% each year since pandemic
Measles epidemiology 2023 to 2025
Pertussis epidemiology in England 2024 and 2025
LGA - Men’s health: The lives of men in our communities
How we are pioneering artificial intelligence applications in public health
King's Fund: It's time to start talking openly about the impact of money worries
Measles highest in 25 years in Europe, WHO says
More support for people in ill health to stay in work ‘could save UK £1bn’
New treatment could cure one in 20 cases of high blood pressure
Covid, five years on: UK ‘still not ready to protect the population
GP in-hours: weekly bulletins for 2025
Emergency department: weekly bulletins for 2025
GP out-of-hours syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins for 2025
National ambulance syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins 2025
Syndromic surveillance: weekly summaries for 2025
How we are pioneering artificial intelligence applications in public health
Using artificial intelligence in chest diagnostics for lung disease - phase 2
How lateral flow tests are becoming a diagnostic gamechanger
High street opticians could use AI to spot dementia risk with eye scan
Is ‘anonymisation’ enough to share NHS patient data safely?
AI could help detect and investigate foodborne illness outbreaks
NICE: First daily pill for endometriosis approved for NHS use
Culturally-adapted therapy improved postnatal depression in British South Asian women
Self-sampling could help reduce barriers to cervical screening
LGA: Healthy inequalities - Breast cancer screening rates in Dudley and Netherton PCN
197,000 UK lives saved thanks to breast cancer advances
New antibody reduces tumour growth in treatment-resistant breast and ovarian cancers
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