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NHS England to add at-home HPV testing to cervical screening programme

By Liz Wells 24 June 2025

Women and people with a cervix who are overdue for cervical screening in England will be offered an at-home testing option, in plans to help boost participation in the programme.

PREVENTION

Gambling harms initiative scoops healthcare inequalities award

By Lee Peart 24 June 2025

A programme to tackle the harms caused by gambling has scooped a prestigious award for reducing healthcare inequalities.

PREVENTION

The drugs laws don't work

By Liz Wells 23 June 2025

The Scottish Government is not ruling out any measure that could help halt the rising number of people dying through drug misuse

PREVENTION

'We're failing test on childhood obesity,' report warns

By Lee Peart 23 June 2025

A new report has warned the UK is ‘failing the test on childhood obesity’.

GENOMICS

Every baby in UK set to have DNA mapped

By Liz Wells 23 June 2025

Every baby born in the UK is set to have their DNA mapped within a decade to predict and prevent disease.

NEURODIVERSITY

ADHD Taskforce stresses need for timely access to needs-based support

By Liz Wells 20 June 2025

The cross-sector ADHD Taskforce, launched last year by NHS England and the government, says rates of recognised ADHD in England are lower than the expected prevalence and stresses the need for time...

UKHSA

UKHSA reveals inequalities in HPV vaccination uptake

By Liz Wells 20 June 2025

The UKHSA is warning that variations in geographical coverage of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in adolescents across England is leaving young women in some areas with less protection against c...

AESTHETIC PROCEDURES

Urgent regulation of fat injections, fillers and botox needed

By Liz Wells 19 June 2025

An urgent clampdown on providers of aesthetic procedures is needed to tackle ‘the Wild West of untrained, unlicensed and uninsured individuals’ who may be putting lives in danger, The Chartered Tra...

PREVENTION

Alzheimer's drug benefits 'too small' to offer on NHS, NICE finds

By Lee Peart 19 June 2025

The benefits from Alzheimer’s drugs donanemab and lecanemab are too small to justify the additional costs to the NHS, NICE has found.

GPS

NHS launches drive to catch one of the most lethal cancers

By Liz Wells 18 June 2025

Hundreds of GP Practices will comb patient records to offer urgent tests to people most at risk of pancreatic cancer, the fifth most common cause of cancer deaths in the UK.