Jane Kirby

Science

Patients with advanced skin cancer to test a new vaccine in NHS drive

The programme has already given thousands of patients better access to a personalised vaccine for bowel cancer.
14 Apr 2025
Politics

Assisted dying law could come at expense of other NHS services, says Streeting

The Health Secretary said the Government would need to work through ‘a very new way of working’ if the Bill was passed.
13 Nov 2024
Politics

‘Palliative care could improve enough for assisted dying but concerns remain’

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has repeatedly said the palliative care system is not ‘where it needs to be to give people a real choice’.
13 Nov 2024
Politics

New NHS ‘ping and book’ service will encourage women to attend cancer screening

Under the plans, starting next month, women will be pinged reminders that the are due or overdue an appointment for breast screening.
12 Nov 2024
Politics

NHS managers who fail to improve patient care ‘will be denied pay rises’

Health Secretary Wes Streeting will deliver a speech setting out new rules around pay and NHS spending on agency staff.
12 Nov 2024
Tech

NHS doctors could ‘spend more time with patients’ thanks to AI helper

An artificial intelligence tool being trialled in the NHS picks up relevant medical information while filtering out background chatter.
11 Nov 2024
Science

Former fitness instructor ‘beyond excited’ to receive lupus therapy in UK first

Katie Tinkler is one of three patients who has received CAR T-cell therapy with the hope of remission and the chance to ditch lifelong drugs.
8 Nov 2024
Science

Three patients in the UK receive ‘groundbreaking’ treatment for lupus

There is currently no cure for lupus and people often need to take lifelong medication.
8 Nov 2024
Health

Obesity among children leaving primary school falls for third year in a row

The data is from the Government’s national child measurement programme, which covers mainstream state-maintained schools in England.
5 Nov 2024
Business News

Vaping and smoking in playgrounds and outside schools may be banned – Streeting

The Government has rowed back on proposals to make it illegal to smoke in pub beer gardens.
5 Nov 2024
Health

NHS to review prostate cancer testing guidance after Chris Hoy appeal

Six time Olympic gold medallist, who has terminal prostate cancer, has called for the age men can get a screening test to be lowered

5 Nov 2024
Health

First UK case of Clade Ib mpox strain detected in London

The person involved had been on holiday in Africa and travelled back to the UK on an overnight flight on October 21.

30 Oct 2024
Science

Weekend bouts of exercise cut the risk of mental decline, study shows

There is a growing body of evidence that it is not when you exercise – but the fact you are doing it – that produces health results.
30 Oct 2024
Health

Radical new cancer treatment shrinks man's deadly brain tumour by half

London hospital is leading a new clinical trial to treat glioblastoma

29 Oct 2024
Health

More than 127,000 young people 'start smoking tobacco each year'

Equivalent of 350 young adults start smoking every day

25 Oct 2024
Health

Changing the clocks harms the nation’s sleep, researchers say

They warn that circadian rhythms – physical, mental, and behavioural changes over 24 hours – are most impacted by the clocks moving forward.

23 Oct 2024
Health

World-first vaccine for vomiting bug norovirus trialled in the UK

The jab uses mRNA technology to tell the immune system to recognise a ‘foreign’ protein on viruses and mount an attack

23 Oct 2024
Science

Women with difficult-to-treat ovarian cancer offered hope by new drugs

Professor Susana Banerjee, from the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Cancer Research said the findings were ‘significant’.
19 Oct 2024
Health

Number of people diagnosed with cancer rises 5% in a year, figures show

New figures for England show 346,217 new cancer cases were diagnosed in 2022 – an average of 948 every day – compared to 329,664 in 2021.
17 Oct 2024
Health

Record number of people taking hormone replacement therapy in England

HRT replaces the hormones oestrogen, progestogen, or both, in women going through the perimenopause or menopause.
17 Oct 2024
Health

NHS and care regulator needs ‘rapid turnaround’, report finds

Dr Penny Dash has published her final findings into the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
15 Oct 2024