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The health service said plans are ‘under way’ to ensure it can implement DIY testing if it is recommended by the UK National Screening Committee.

NIGEL Farage has called for NHS funding to be “re-examined” – and backed letting American chlorinated chicken into UK shops ...

Figures reveal 29% fall in operations in England to remove foreign bodies from children’s airways, noses and throats

The King’s Fund charity has called for a shift in how cash is spent to drive care into the community.

A recent BBC investigation questioned the accuracy of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) self-tests – rapid at-home tests for men worried about prostate cancer. The BBC analysed five of these tests using one blood sample and found varying results: one positive, three negative, and one unreadable.

Shoplifting has soared to such “epidemic” levels with reports of 17,000 incidents-a-day while attacks on shopkeepers are up by 50 per cent. Reports of violence against women and girls have surged so alarmingly in the last few years that the police declared it a “national emergency”.

Senior civil servant who was appointed director of the Office for Population Censuses and Surveys in 1986

It is first time in three weeks there has not been a small decrease in norovirus patients.

The decision was confirmed in a written ministerial statement by the Health Secretary on Thursday.