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Physical activity as important as medication for keeping older people healthy and happy, MPs say | Parliamentary Committees and Public Enquiries
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (843+ words) Physical activity should be at the heart of the NHS's support for older people and is as important as providing medication, a report by the Health and Social Care Committee says. Boosting resilience to illness, frailty and falls through physical…...
Age checks to stop children using sunbeds under new laws | Department of Health and Social Care | Official Press Release
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (938+ words) Government to introduce age verifications for sunbeds to protect young people from harm. Children will be stopped from using sunbeds through mandatory ID checks under new laws being consulted on by the government today (22 May 2026). Under 18s are already barred from…...
Mental health difficulties among young adults have doubled in past decade | UCL IOE - Faculty of Education and Society
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (807+ words) More than a fifth (22%) of generation Z in England report having a longstanding mental health condition in their early 20s, double the rate of millennials (10%) at a similar age ten years earlier, finds a new UCL study. Looking at rates of…...
Welsh Government pledges to cut NHS waiting times | Welsh Government
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (604+ words) The new Welsh Government will pick up the pace to ensure people across Wales are seen faster for NHS treatment. It comes as new figures released today show 666, 700 patient pathways waiting to start NHS treatment, although this was a fall…...
TUC Cymru calls for new Welsh Government to establish a National Care Service and remove profit from Social Care | Wired Gov Newswire (news from other organisations)
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (705+ words) Ahead of their biennial Congress, which is set to take place in Llandudno between 19 and 21 May, TUC Cymru has called on the newly elected Welsh Government to establish a new National Care Service which removes private profit from the system....
Government to transform Mental Health care with new strategy | Department of Health and Social Care
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1159+ words) New'Mental'Health'strategy will transform care in England and drive shift from crisis intervention to preventative care. Frontline workers, clinicians and mental health experts are today [Friday 15 May] being invited to share their views on how to transform mental health care for…...
Hantavirus outbreak update | NHS Wales | Official Press Release
1+ week, 3+ day ago (407+ words) Our thoughts are with those who have lost loved ones and all those affected by the hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship. Public Health Wales is working with Welsh Government, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), Welsh…...
Routine NHS access to spinal muscular atrophy treatments offers new hope for patients and families | National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
1+ week, 3+ day ago (838+ words) People living with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in England are set to gain routine access to two potentially life-changing treatments, following our publication of final draft guidance From 14th May everyone with this devastating condition now has a treatment'option'that is'routinely available....
Life-changing" SMA therapies to be available on NHS in long-term | NHS England
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1219+ words) From today, 2 innovative treatments for SMA " nusinersen and risdiplam " will be made routinely available on the NHS in England following an access scheme to collect more evidence, giving hundreds of families long term-certainty. NHS England today announced it had secured…...
Scope of maternity review confirmed | Department of Health and Social Care
1+ week, 4+ day ago (925+ words) Sussex families to get answers as maternity review scope confirmed. Harmed and bereaved families in Sussex will get the answers they have been fighting for after the Health and Social Care Secretary confirmed the scope of the independent review into…...