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Thank you, NHS England, for offering baby-loss leave. This kindness should be every employee’s right

Only about one-fifth of employers give paid leave after miscarriage, says Kat Brown, editor of No One Talks About This Stuff: 22 Stories of Almost Parenthood

The Guardian - UK

Child cancer unit to move to central London hospital despite opposition from MPs and parents

NHS to move specialist cancer services to the Evelina in Waterloo

Evening Standard

What are puberty blockers? UK government bans sale of medications to under-18s

The ban only applies to new patients

Evening Standard

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Private equity groups collecting millions to run UK government-funded sexual assault referral centres

Exclusive: Charities concerned at profits being made from government contracts to help victims

The Guardian - UK

NHS England trusts advised to offer women two weeks’ miscarriage leave

Non-compulsory guidance issued to all trusts also recognises fathers’ right to grieve after loss of a baby

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Stonewall has a terrible grip on British public life

Quite how needful it was for equalities minister Kemi Badenoch to tell public bodies to pull the plug on their connection with Stonewall, the pernicious, ubiquitous campaigning group, can be seen in its latest accounts.

Evening Standard

Why disturbing leaks from US gender group WPATH ring alarm bells in the NHS

WPATH is no model in the search for evidence-based care of transgender children

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Private hospitals ‘cannibalising’ NHS in England by doing 10% of elective operations

Campaigners say health service cannot provide care quickly because of underinvestment, which is allowing firms to ‘make a killing’

The Guardian - UK

More than a quarter of ambulance staff ‘sexually harassed by public’

2023 survey of NHS staff reveals scale of assaults and harassment with about one in 12 of all health workers in England experiencing incidents

The Guardian - UK

NHS England leaders welcome £6bn budget boost but say much more is needed

NHS Confederation chief says money ‘will scarcely touch the sides’, while there is little help for struggling social care system

The Guardian - UK

Drug that could slow womb cancer to be rolled out by NHS in England

Dostarlimab or Jemperli, an immunotherapy used alongside chemotherapy, could extend life expectancy

The Guardian - UK

Sponge on a string reduces long waits for diagnostic test for cancer

Exclusive: cytosponge detects precursor to oesophageal cancer, slashing NHS waiting times for endoscopies

The Guardian - UK

New MedTech Funding To Predict Diseases And Make Treatments Available To UK Patients

The UK government has awarded medtech funding to eight UK medtech companies which are developing pathbreaking tests and AI detection tools for faster treatment of life-threatening diseases, reducing the burden of NHS.

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Rage, relief and recognition: the TV version of my book Breathtaking has opened a floodgate

During the Covid pandemic, NHS staff were treated as expendable, says Rachel Clarke, a palliative care doctor and the author of Breathtaking

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‘Martha’s rule’ granting urgent second opinion to be adopted in 100 English hospitals

Initiative before national rollout will allow review of care for patients whose condition is deteriorating

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‘Gamechanging’ cancer screening offered to people with Lynch syndrome in England

NHS bowel screening programme will offer specialist assessment every two years to people with condition

The Guardian - UK

More than a third of cancer patients in England face potentially deadly delays

Overall NHS figures show 6.37 million patients waiting for health treatment at end of December

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‘Huge human and economic toll’: one in seven people in England waiting for NHS treatment

Prolapsed organs and paralysis among conditions patients are left to endure as a result of ballooning waiting lists

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Rishi Sunak accused of personally holding up deal to end doctors’ strikes

Exclusive: Sources say PM has blocked talks due to concerns about knock-on effect of more generous pay offer

The Guardian - UK

Physician associates make job harder, not easier, say thousands of NHS medics

BMA survey finds 55% of doctors say working with associates has increased their workload

Evening Standard

Cancer gene test to be offered to thousands of people with Jewish ancestry

NHS England is rolling out a national BRCA gene testing programme to pick up changes that push up cancer risk, with anyone over 18 with Jewish ancestry offered a simple saliva test

The Guardian - UK

People in England with Jewish ancestry to be offered test to detect cancer risk

NHS test would detect a genetic fault that is more common among those with Jewish heritage, leading to a higher risk of cancer

The Guardian - UK

Prisoners with severe mental health needs spending months in isolation, report finds

Independent Monitoring Board says jails in England using segregation too often as a way of managing inmates

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Almost a quarter of English children are obese at the end of primary school

Analysis of more than 1m children reveals ‘alarming’ effects of pandemic

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Rise in measles cases prompts vaccination campaign in England

UKHSA declares national incident as figures suggest more than 3.4 million children have not had MMR jab

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