Latest headlines in Health News
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NHS billions wasted as bipolar patients left 'forgotten and failed' (BBC Health 2025-04-01 01:18:44)
Exclusive data shows how neglect of this common mental health condition costs the UK nearly £10bn a year.
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Protests postponed after pharmacy funding boost (BBC Health 2025-03-31 03:15:32)
Community pharmacies have delayed protest action after the government agreed a new funding package.
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Secret filming reveals brazen tactics of immigration scammers (BBC Health 2025-03-30 23:08:52)
An undercover BBC investigation exposes how rogue agents are exploiting a UK visa scheme.
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Alarms, overdoses and saving lives: Two days in UK's first drug injection room (BBC Health 2025-03-30 23:05:03)
The BBC was given exclusive access to the controversial facility in the east end of Glasgow.
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Morning-after pill to be made free at pharmacies in England (BBC Health 2025-03-30 14:58:18)
The government hopes the move will end the "unfair postcode lottery" some women face.
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Are my braids doing more harm than good? (BBC Health 2025-03-30 00:03:42)
Research suggests the synthetic hair used for braiding could be bad for you - but will that stop women using it?
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'I fear I'll be dead before I get justice for my son' (BBC Health 2025-03-29 09:56:44)
Tony Summers, whose son died from HIV and Hepatitis C, fears he will be dead before his compensation is paid.
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'I had to use a goods lift to go for an abortion' (BBC Health 2025-03-29 02:30:09)
Dani Czernuszka-Watt was told the clinic she went to had never treated a person in a wheelchair before.
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Blood victims dying 'two a week' as thousands await compensation (BBC Health 2025-03-28 23:00:41)
Tony Summers, whose son died from HIV and Hepatitis C, fears he will be dead before his compensation is paid.
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Big drop in child surgery for swallowed objects (BBC Health 2025-03-28 00:07:22)
Cashless society may have helped, since coins were a common foreign object swallowed, surgeons say.
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Doctor 'betrayed' over son's death at her hospital (BBC Health 2025-03-27 17:31:46)
Deborah Burns says she is unable to return to work at the hospital after the death of her son, William Hewes.
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Fake £4m Xanax drug gang boss jailed (BBC Health 2025-03-27 16:35:28)
The gang, managed from Thailand, produced 11 million pills in the West Midlands to be sold online.
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Man who died from sepsis 'not treated urgently' (BBC Health 2025-03-27 16:29:40)
William Hewes died after his meningitis, caused by a meningococcal infection, developed into sepsis.
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NHS software provider fined £3m over data breach after ransomware attack (BBC Health 2025-03-27 01:25:34)
Security failings by the Advanced Computer Software Group led to a cyberattack in 2022 that impacted NHS services.
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The foods restricted in Welsh shops as ban approved (BBC Health 2025-03-26 16:13:26)
Plans to restrict a list of foods classed as unhealthy in shops are approved by 25 votes to 24.
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Baby slings unsafe for hands-free feeding, charities warn (BBC Health 2025-03-26 16:12:49)
Parenting charities, including the NCT, have updated their advice saying slings and carriers are unsafe for feeding.
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Who are the millions of Britons not working? (BBC Health 2025-03-26 15:23:42)
About a quarter of the working age population - those aged 16 to 64 - do not currently have a job.
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Fertility patients sold unproven add-ons, HFEA says (BBC Health 2025-03-26 10:25:25)
Despite little proof add-ons help, many IVF clinics offer them, the UK's fertility regulator warns.
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What is assisted dying and how could the law change? (BBC Health 2025-03-26 10:17:24)
MPs backed a proposal to let terminally ill people in England and Wales choose to end their life.
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Baby deaths trust claimed £2m 'good care' payments (BBC Health 2025-03-26 06:19:57)
An NHS trust criticised over a baby's death claimed money for providing good care, the BBC can reveal.