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Higher taxes on gambling and milkshakes,1 private funding for new neighbourhood hubs, and scrapping the two child benefit cap2 have been announced in the government’s 2025 budget. But there were no ...

Government ‘withholding data that may link covid jab to excess deaths’,” read the headline in the Telegraph . “Health chiefs accused of a ‘cover up’ after failing to reveal data that may link covid ...

As a final year medical student who is transitioning to a career in medicine after a 25 year career in professional services, I’m pleased that NHS England has mandated a 10 point plan to improve the ...

Hundreds of thousands of children are set to be lifted out of poverty, as the UK government has announced that it will end the limit restricting universal credit support to two children per family.

The case for a greater focus on medical “expert generalists” in the NHS has been in the health policy news recently. The NHS England diagnostic review of postgraduate medical training, which I ...

Adding fluoride to drinking water has no negative effect on cognitive ability and may even confer a small cognitive benefit, research has found.1 The finding comes as the public health practice of ...