Health News Digest
21st January 2022
(covering news from the 14th January 2022)
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Health News Digest
Recent increase in group B meningococcal disease among teenagers and young adults
South Gloucestershire: Making sure we're there for children in need
UK pupils taught about alcohol with ‘misleading’ industry-funded resources
Schools rejecting offers of air filters that limit Covid spread, say parents
Psychiatrists warn of police and crime bill’s impact on young people
How does the health and care system hear from people and communities?
Councils need certainty on public health funding at this crucial moment for the nation’s health
Are a greater proportion of NHS hospital beds being occupied this winter?
NHS performance summary: November - December 2021
CQC Insight: Issue 15 published
Hundreds of England’s NHS consultants have shares in private clinics
Ministers and NHS bosses clash over surgery waiting list targets in England
One in four NHS doctors tired to the point of impairment, survey finds
COVID-19 Health Inequalities Monitoring in England tool (CHIME)
LGA: Health inequalities: Age webinar
LGA responds to Joseph Rowntree Foundation report into UK poverty
Greater Manchester: Improving access to health services in the LGBT community
Leeds: Supporting men with a dedicated network and health coordinator
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - UK Poverty 2022: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK
How we can flush out poverty stigma from our systems and services
Rising energy bills to ‘devastate’ poorest families
CQC report finds ethnic minority-led GP practices "not operating on level playing field"
Recent increase in group B meningococcal disease among teenagers and young adults
Weekly statistics for NHS Test and Trace (England): 6 to 12 January 2022
COVID-19 vaccine weekly surveillance reports (weeks 39 to 3, 2021 to 2022)
Notifiable diseases: causative agents reports for 2022
Health Protection Report volume 15 (2021)
Measles and rubella elimination UK indicators
Notifiable diseases: last 52 weeks
Notifiable diseases: weekly reports for 2022
Covid: NHS in push to vaccinate the final four million
Omicron: Is it too soon to lift the restrictions?
Millions are dying from drug-resistant infections, global report says
Antimicrobial resistance now a leading cause of death worldwide, study finds
Weekly statistics for NHS Test and Trace (England): 6 to 12 January 2022
Health Protection Report volume 15 (2021)
COVID-19 Health Inequalities Monitoring in England tool (CHIME)
Public health services at risk amid funding uncertainty and Omicron pressures
LGA responds to Joseph Rowntree Foundation report into UK poverty
How does the health and care system hear from people and communities?
Councils need certainty on public health funding at this crucial moment for the nation’s health
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - UK Poverty 2022: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK
How we can flush out poverty stigma from our systems and services
Rising energy bills to ‘devastate’ poorest families
CQC publishes new survey showing the impact of lockdown on mental health and dignity
Public told not to delay cancer check-ups
Covid: NHS in push to vaccinate the final four million
Omicron: Is it too soon to lift the restrictions?
Millions are dying from drug-resistant infections, global report says
Mixed messages? How end of Covid plan B could change behaviour in England
Antimicrobial resistance now a leading cause of death worldwide, study finds
National ambulance syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins 2022
GP in hours: weekly bulletins for 2022
Weekly all-cause mortality surveillance: 2021 to 2022
Emergency department: weekly bulletins for 2022
Syndromic surveillance: weekly summaries for 2022
Remote health advice: weekly bulletins for 2022
GP out-of-hours syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins for 2022
Excess mortality in English regions
Excess mortality in England: weekly reports
COVID-19 Health Inequalities Monitoring in England tool (CHIME)
