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Monday marks the start of Love You Lungs week, a campaign to raise awareness of lung health. A lung condition can be permanent but there are treatments to slow down progression.

Covid cases in the UK are on the rise with recent estimates indicating over 1 million people had the virus. There are no longer free Covid tests for all, so some are calling for them to return

The longest wait time reported was in Ayrshire and Arran where patients waited 39 hours and 41 minutes.

The trust said: “Everything we do is focused on maintaining services for local people.

Several professions could be about to follow rail workers in striking, but reasons and plans vary

Johnson will scapegoat the unions, but after 12 years of frozen and falling wages, their members can’t afford another pay cut, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Since the post-COVID reopening of the economy, staffing shortages in the care sector in England have been of increasing concern. In October 2021, British charity Skills for Care warned that, at 8.2%, adult social care vacancy rates in England were exceeding pre-pandemic levels (which in 2019, stood at 8%). That…

In the UK, 1 in 4 people invited for a smear test don’t go to their appointment.

Royal College of Psychiatrists says £300m is needed to fund and prepare mental health services for ‘unprecedented challenge’ ahead

The move comes during Cervical Screening Awareness Week, from June 20 to 26, which urges more women to have a smear test.

'I have had a minor one [cancer diagnosis] myself which has fortunately been resolved,' the former Health Secretary said