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Supermarkets could be hit with penalties over junk food sales under new proposals to tackle obesity

The Health and Social Care Committee has also called for all outdoor advertising of junk food to be banned

The Independent UK

Government must ‘stand up to the food industry’ to tackle obesity epidemic – MPs

All outdoor advertising of junk food should be banned and front-of-pack labelling should be mandatory, the Health and Social Care Committee said.

Evening Standard

The one thing that’s just as important as medication for your health later in life

The Commons Health and Social Care Committee have cited one factor as being a ‘major driver of ill health in later life’

The Independent UK

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Black women ‘not taken seriously’ on maternity care, MPs say

Racism was ‘one of the core drivers’ of poor outcomes for black woman, a Health and Social Care Committee inquiry heard.

The Independent UK

Women’s health is a priority despite scrapping of key pledge, says NHS chief

Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, was speaking before the Health and Social Care Committee.

Evening Standard

Parents need advice on when to send children with mild illnesses to school, say MPs

The chairmen of the Commons Education Committee and Health and Social Care Committee have written to ministers calling for a public awareness campaign

Evening Standard

MPs to press new Health Secretary on NHS data platform plans

The health and social care committee said the Government has acknowledged it ‘needed to do better to communicate the benefits of digital healthcare’.

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MPs call for heavier restrictions on vapes to stop use among children

The Health and Social Care Committee said a headteacher had told MPs that hydraulic oil and antifreeze were found in a vape confiscated at her school.

The Independent UK

People forced to pull out their own teeth amid NHS dental crisis

The Health and Social Care Committee has published a report into NHS dental services, calling for drastic reforms.

Evening Standard

People forced to pull out their own teeth amid NHS dental crisis, report finds

The Health and Social Care Committee has published a report into NHS dental services, calling for drastic reforms.

The Independent UK

'I'm just a lump in bed, in agony and unable to feed myself - I want the right to die'

Jane Barnes told how she is now just existing in her care home as husband Colin looks on helplessly, and says she wouldn'y wish such an existence on her worst enemy

Daily Mirror

Desperate patients extract own teeth as 11million wait to see NHS dentist amid exodus

With one in four Brits unable to get or afford a dentist appointment, a Mirror investigation has highlighted the extent of the NHS dentistry crisis from ripping out teeth with shoelaces to seeking appointments overseas

Daily Mirror

‘Heartbreak’ over plight of elderly who ‘go to the grave without proper care’

Age UK said the pandemic cannot be blamed because social care services were already struggling to secure enough staff and funding.

The Independent UK

Government efforts to digitise NHS rated ‘inadequate’ and ‘too slow’ by expert panel

Progress towards improving digital capabilities of the NHS by government was ‘too slow’

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Government efforts to digitise NHS rated ‘inadequate’ by expert panel

A report said the Government had failed to make significant progress in a number of areas.

The Independent UK

Watch: Steve Barclay questioned by MPs on nurses pay

Steve Barclay addressed the Health and Social Care Committee as nursing strikes continue across the UK.

The Independent UK

Patients harmed in NHS scandals waiting too long for redress, MPs say

Recommendations were made more than two years ago after a report concluded patients came to ‘avoidable harm’ in the healthcare system.

The Independent UK

GP crisis ‘putting patients at risk’, MPs warn

Health leaders have been reluctant to acknowledge the crisis, according to a report.

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Legislate on filtered images and some cosmetic procedures, say MPs

The House of Common’s Health and Social Care Committee said the impact of body image on mental and physical health is ‘wide-reaching’.

Evening Standard

The Leader podcast: NHS ‘20-hour ambulance waits’ in understaffing crisis

Health and Social Care Committee warns understaffed workforce creates serious patient safety risk

Evening Standard

Jeremy Hunt admits ‘share of responsibility’ as NHS faces ‘greatest workforce crisis in history’

Projections suggest an extra 475,000 jobs will be needed in health and an extra 490,000 jobs in social care by the early part of the next decade.

Manchester Evening News

NHS understaffing poses 'serious risk to patient safety', MPs say in damning report

Research found that NHS England is short of 12,000 hospital doctors and over 50,000 nurses and midwives

Wales Online

NHS understaffing in England poses ‘serious risk to patient safety’ - MPs

Projections suggest an extra 475,000 jobs will be needed in health and an extra 490,000 jobs in social care by the early part of the next decade

The Independent UK

NHS understaffing poses ‘serious risk to patient safety’

Projections suggest an extra 475,000 jobs will be needed in health and an extra 490,000 jobs in social care by the early part of the next decade.

Wales Online

UK government's delays in enforcing Covid-19 lockdown cost lives, says report

The Government has accepted advice for it to establish a volunteer reserve database

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