Health News Digest
26th July 2024
(covering news from the 19th July 2024)
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Health News Digest
LGA: Towards an effective and financially sustainable approach to SEND in England
One in six vapes confiscated at English schools spiked with ‘zombie drug’
Overhaul UK benefits to tackle child poverty, charities urge
Review dismisses claims youth suicides rose after NHS curbed puberty blockers
Reform benefits system to protect children’s mental health, say charities
Focus on sport turning children off from exercise
Drinking concentrated fruit juice may cause diabetes in young boys, study warns
Heat mortality monitoring reports
Climate change disproportionately affects mental health of vulnerable people
Forests even more important in climate change fight than first thought
Temperature extremes and records most affected by UK’s changing climate
Conspiracy theories swirl about geo-engineering, but could it help save the planet?
LGA: UK COVID-19 Inquiry report
Nuffield Trust: A turning tide: is the fall in nursing vacancies cause for applause or anxiety?
Nuffield Trust: What has happened to the funding earmarked for social care reform?
Nuffield Trust: Productivity in the NHS: what’s getting in the way?
Health regulator not fit for purpose - Streeting
Cost of England’s four biggest killer diseases could hit £86bn by 2050
Urgent NHS appeal for O-type blood donors amid national shortage
Online GP consultations have led to harm and death, investigation finds
NHS finances so dire that whole service may collapse, says spending watchdog
UK must move towards disease prevention to save economy and NHS, says expert
NHS England workforce plan ‘needs many thousands more family doctors’
Nearly half of UK public think junior doctors are underpaid, survey finds
Scientists urge GPs to share UK patient data for research into new treatments
LGA: Towards an effective and financially sustainable approach to SEND in England
Overhaul UK benefits to tackle child poverty, charities urge
‘National disgrace’: black mothers in England twice as likely to have NHS birth investigated
Why sex bias in labs means women are the losers in research into ageing
Vulnerable people with Covid struggling to access treatments in England, experts warn
Climate change disproportionately affects mental health of vulnerable people
Health Foundation: Inequalities in poverty
Health Foundation: Relationship between poverty, age and health
HPR volume 18 issue 6: news (25 July)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) surveillance update 2023
Avian influenza (influenza A H5N1): risk to human health
Group A streptococcal infections: seasonal activity in England, 2023 to 2024
Herpes zoster (shingles) immunisation programme 2023 to 2024: evaluation reports
Notifiable diseases: causative agents reports for 2024
Heat mortality monitoring reports
LGA: UK COVID-19 Inquiry report
Cost of England’s four biggest killer diseases could hit £86bn by 2050
Harm from problem gambling in Great Britain ‘may be eight times higher than thought’
UK must move towards disease prevention to save economy and NHS, says expert
Discovery of different forms of insomnia could lead to better treatment
Syndromic surveillance: weekly summaries for 2024
Emergency department: weekly bulletins for 2024
GP out-of-hours syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins for 2024
Weekly all-cause mortality surveillance: 2024 to 2025
Remote health advice: weekly bulletins for 2024
National ambulance syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins 2024
‘National disgrace’: black mothers in England twice as likely to have NHS birth investigated
‘Dream come true’: study suggests drug could extend women’s fertility by five years
Why sex bias in labs means women are the losers in research into ageing
Sodium channels in breast cancer cells a promising target for future treatments, study reveals
Women at lower risk of breast cancer after ovarian cancer diagnosis, research shows