Summarize this content to 1000 words 16 hours agoBy Maria Cassidy, BBC NewsGetty ImagesFood and drink with poor nutritional value are promoted more than healthier products, says the Welsh governmentFree drink refills could be banned at restaurants and cafes as part of new proposals by the Welsh government.Health Secretary Eluned Morgan has launched a consultation to restrict "promotions of food products high in fat, sugar and salt". It also proposes to restrict
Summarize this content to 1000 words Getty ImagesThe new government has made tackling NHS waiting times a key priority - and this week appointed NHS surgeon and former health minister Lord Ara Darzi to investigate what is going wrong. Is productivity the place to start?The scale of the challenge facing Health Secretary Wes Streeting was made clear as he announced the review on Thursday. The latest performance figures – the
Summarize this content to 1000 words NHS EnglandNin Sambhi says the jab could make a difference to her and her familyThousands of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be offered a new 10-minute injection that can help slow progression of the disease, NHS England says. The medicine, called ocrelizumab, is normally given as an infusion through a vein - a process that can take
Summarize this content to 1000 words Scientists are launching their first in-human vaccine trial for a highly fatal virus.The Marburg virus is in the same family as Ebola and was discovered in 1967.There are currently no approved vaccines or treatments for the virus, which is listed as a "high consequence" infectious disease by the UK Health Security Agency.Now, researchers are looking for 46 volunteers to receive doses of the ChAdOx1
Summarize this content to 1000 words Wes Streeting said he has been “genuinely stunned” by the NHS failings he has learned about since becoming health secretary.He said much of what he had been told is not yet in the public domain and he is determined to "tell the truth to our country" about how patients and staff had been failed.Mr Streeting has ordered an independent investigation into NHS performance in
Summarize this content to 1000 words 12 hours agoBy Michelle Roberts, Digital health editor, BBC NewsReutersMr Streeting was speaking at the Tony Blair Institute Future of Britain conferenceFace-to-face talks between the new health secretary and junior doctors unhappy over pay have begun. Wes Streeting says the government cannot afford or commit to the 35% rise the doctors want but hopes to end the dispute. But there is renewed optimism an agreement might
Summarize this content to 1000 words There is shocking bullying, racism and incompetence in the organisation responsible for ensuring NHS nurses and midwives in the UK are safe to have around patients, a damning report says.The independent review warns of a dangerously toxic culture within the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), which oversees and regulates hundreds of thousands of nurses and midwives. Good nurses find themselves investigated for years over
Summarize this content to 1000 words 3 days agoBy Kathryn Stanczyszyn, BBC Radio WM, Presenter • Oprah Flash, BBC News, West MidlandsEmily-Jane ScandrettEmily-Jane Scandrett suffered an intolerable pain in her chest for months before she received her diagnosisA mum with a rare cancer caused by exposure to asbestos hopes to raise awareness after it went undetected for more than a year.Emily-Jane Scandrett has pleural mesothelioma, which is most often found in men over 75.Despite undergoing
Summarize this content to 1000 words 2 hours agoBy by Guy Lynn and Stephen Menon, guy_lynn, BBC Investigations, LondonBlavatnik School of GovernmentCiaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre said hack was "one of the most serious cyber incidents in British history"A leading cybersecurity expert has warned that the NHS remains vulnerable to further cyber-attacks unless it updates its computer systems. This stark assessment comes in the wake of a major
Summarize this content to 1000 words 1 hour agoBy Maria Zaccaro, BBC NewsPAThe new Health Secretary Wes Streeting has branded the NHS "broken" in his first day in the job, as he says negotiations with junior doctors will begin next week.The Ilford North MP warned the health service is "going through the biggest crisis in its history", and it cannot be fixed overnight. Mr Streeting said he spoke with the British Medical
