Girls in Wales are more likely to be admitted to hospital after self-harming than boys, according to new research. The study, led by Swansea University, included 937,697 young people aged
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NHS Digital has published new figures on the number of detentions carried out under the Mental Health Act in 2018-19. This publication provides the official statistics about people with a
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Almost half of people think Boris Johnson is failing to tell the truth when it comes to protecting the NHS in a trade deal with the US, according to a
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The Department of Health has today published statistics collected from Health & Social Care (HSC) Trusts, Agencies and Legacy Health and Social Services (HSS) Boards on all clinical & social
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A “long hoped-for” deal has been reached to provide lifesaving cystic fibrosis drugs on the NHS which could help thousands of sufferers. Around 5,000 NHS patients will now have full
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A diagnostic test is being developed by scientists that would cut the time taken to show resistance to antibiotics from “up to two days” to “less than 45 minutes”. In
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Cancer patients are too afraid to ask for support because they are worried about adding to the workload of overstretched NHS staff, a charity fears. More than two thirds of
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A growing shortage of skilled children’s palliative care doctors and nurses across England has reached crisis point, a new report from Together for Short Lives reveals. The charity says the
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More than £200 million is lying unused by cash-strapped health trusts in England because of restrictions in the Government’s apprenticeship levy scheme, a study suggests. Unison said figures based on
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New imaging technology has been developed to help picture how tumours form. Early diagnosis and treatment of patients with cancer could be helped by the tool which researchers at the
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