News and reports

Care home residents and staff are set to be among the first in the world to receive the new, variant-tackling jabs from next week, as the NHS COVID-19 vaccination programme moves to the next phase.

Students should get up to date with 3 vaccines: Men ACWY (meningitis), MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) and, for female students, HPV, before the start of the new term.

An estimated 4.3 million people are using e-cigarettes, up from about 800,000 a decade ago in ‘vaping revolution’.

Dental patients are still suffering from the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, as parts of England are left with only one NHS dentist for thousands of people.

The NHS will become the first healthcare system in the world to use the next generation, bivalent COVID vaccine when it kickstarts the autumn booster rollout in early September.

The monkeypox outbreak in the UK is showing signs of plateauing, the UK Health Security Agency has said.

Find out the signs and symptoms of monkeypox, what to do if you think you have it and who is eligible for a vaccine.

More than 1 million people are waiting months, and sometimes years, for out-of-hospital care for back pain, foot problems and hearing loss, a leaked NHS England document reveals.

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