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Forget HIIT - this easier alternative can help you live longer and healthier with just 10 minutes a day

Are you doing moderate intensity exercise (otherwise known as zone 2 cardio)? If not, it's time to start, the experts say

Woman & Home

GPs asked to find undiagnosed infected blood victims

Infected Blood Scandal Inquiry revealed concerns last year that hundreds infected at birth could be living unaware

The Independent UK

Poor mental health as child limits capacity to work in later life, study finds

Children in Great Britain with serious conditions 68% more likely to have limited ability to work as adults, report says

The Guardian - UK

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NHS rolls out plans to find more infected blood victims

People will be asked about their blood transfusion history before 1996 when they register with a GP.

The Independent UK

Charity expresses concern over ‘decline’ in stroke after-care

The charity is calling for all stroke patients to get the recommended levels of speech and language therapy.

The Independent UK

Children with poor mental health less likely to work as adults – report finds

Children and young people with severe mental and behavioural problems are 85% more likely to have symptoms of depression at age 51.

The Independent UK

‘Hard-won progress’ on cardiovascular disease risks being lost, charity warns

The British Heart Foundation said Scottish heart health declined at the start of the 2020s.

Evening Standard

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Heart health in the UK is declining rapidly in ‘worrying trend’. Here’s why

Cardiovascular deaths in working-age adults have risen by 18 per cent since 2019, according to analysis by the British Heart Foundation (BHF)

The Independent UK

More than 400 with heart valve condition dying each year on NHS waiting list, research finds

Exclusive: Cardiologist Dr Jon Byrne warns true death toll could be 800 a year as not all specialist centres shared data‘She was so fit, so well’: the heart patient who died before getting vital procedure

The Guardian - UK

Warning NHS making same mistakes that led to Mid Staffs scandal as bosses ‘consider cutting hospital beds’

Community services for children and mental health support for cancer patients axed amid savings drive

The Independent UK

‘I slept in my car just to attend classes’: Inside the financial hardship faced by student nurses at university

‘It was the lowest point in my life,’ says Jess Dodds, a student nurse who was forced to sleep in her car

The Independent UK

Children still ‘waiting far too long’ for mental health care, commissioner warns

The most common reason for referral during the period was anxiety.

Evening Standard

‘Grit’ no substitute for better mental health funding for pupils in England, say experts

As education secretary unveils £49m for school-based support and calls for ‘grit’, charity says many children have significant treatment needs

The Guardian - UK

Fact check: Unemployment figures row and NHS appointments error

Round-up of fact checks from the last week compiled by Full Fact.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

MP ‘will not be complicit’ in approving assisted dying law in safeguards call

Labour MP Naz Shah said: ‘I will not be complicit in that and I hope this House will not be either.’

Evening Standard

NHS landlord Assura attracts new offer from PHP as bidding war heats up

PHP’s offer outbids the £1.61 billion takeover price offered by US private equity giants Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Stonepeak Partners.

The Conversation

Assisted dying: five questions that need answering before it can work in practice

An attempt to make assisted dying legal in England in Wales continues to make its way through parliament, with MPs currently scheduled to have a final vote on the bill in June.

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: Keir, immigrants have made this stranger’s life immeasurably better

There may be a grownup conversation to be had about immigration, but the PM’s depressing speech wasn’t it. Plus, Trump’s flying freebie

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The Guardian - UK

‘Much-needed grit’ to be fostered in England’s schoolchildren, say ministers

Increased mental health support for young people will give them resilience, say education and health secretaries

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: The deepening turmoil over the assisted dying bill

In today’s newsletter: As MPs return to the Commons today to debate the amended bill, emotions are running high and some are switching sides

The Independent UK

Voices: The burden of assisted dying should not be placed on doctors like us

COMMENT: Adding responsibility for administering the lethal drugs required to end someone’s life to the duties of a doctor is so counter to our overall purpose that it risks undermining the defining role of the profession, argue physicians Zoë Fritz and Sally Barker

The Independent UK

Scot tackles 100km desert trek two years after heart transplant

Fraser Wilson, 48, said the operation has been ‘life-changing’ for him.

The Guardian - UK

NHS gave private firms record £216m to examine X-rays in 2024

Failure to recruit NHS radiologists risks creating vicious cycle whereby doctors are drawn to private work, royal college says

The Guardian - UK

UK women driven to unregulated sperm donors by high treatment costs, experts say

One unregistered sperm donor who claims to have fathered 180 children has sought access to four children in the UK

Evening Standard

MP warns parts of crumbling London hospital may have to close as development works delayed

Large parts of St Helier are in severe disrepair, with lifts often out of order, leaking ceilings forcing and sinking floors forcing the hospital to temporarily close wards

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