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Ofsted consults on a single inspection framework for local authority children's social care.
The world's largest single database of cancer patients is being set up by Public Health England in a major step forward to harnessing the power of data to revolutionise care.
Longer Lives, a new website showing the variation in early death rates has been launched by Public Health England (PHE).
More than 95% of GP practices across England have ordered additional vaccine doses – more than 200,000 extra in total.
The “shocking” local variation in early death rates has been exposed today by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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Secretary of State has asked JCVI to make recommendation on a national routine Meningococcal B immunisation programme.
According to information from the public health authorities in Spain, a dog in the city of Toledo, central Spain was confirmed to have rabies on 5 June 2013.
An extra 20 dental practices have joined a dental pilot programme to test the new dental contract, Health Minister Lord Howe announced today
Independent reviewing officers are responsible for ensuring the care plans for looked after children set out the required help and support.
The Department of Health, NHS England, Local Government Association, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, Care Quality Commission and the National Forum of People with Learning Disabilities have issued a statem…
To clarify discussion on female GPs in a recent parliamentary debate, Health Minister Anna Soubry said:
Professor David Salisbury, Director of Immunisation at the Department of Health, describes the MMR catch-up vaccination programme in England.
The radioactive gas occurs naturally and is present in all buildings all over the UK. It cannot be seen, smelled or tasted - but each year is believed to lead to over 1,000 lung cancer deaths.
New sexually transmitted infection diagnoses rose 5% in 2012 according to PHE data, mostly due to improved data collection.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has appointed five senior figures with a wide variety of professional experience to become new Non-Executive Directors, Care and Support Minister, Norman Lamb, announced today.
PHE is hosting a conference to update attendees on the global and UK situation on Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
The government has banned 'NBOMe' and 'Benzofury', two groups of 'legal highs'.
This ACMD letter to the Home Secretary advises on a TCDO on 2 groups of novel psychoactive substances (5-6APB and NBOMe compounds).
Jeremy Browne writes to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) accepting recommendations on a TCDO for 5-6APB and NBOMe compounds.
John Pattullo has been named as the new chairman of NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced today.
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