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The number of claims against dental professionals exceeding a hundred thousand pounds in compensation and legal costs has quadrupled over the last decade, the Dental Defence Union (DDU), said today.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Public Health England, have carried out analysis of the weekly and monthly death figures, after the 2015 provisional data showed the highest number of deaths in a single year since 2003 and the highest year on year percentage increase since 1968.
Whilst cases of malaria are finally on the decline, Malaria Consortium argues a long-term global programme is needed to quell dengue fever, one of the fastest growing infectious diseases.
Figures from mental health charity Mind show that almost half (46 per cent) of people with mental health problems have considered or attempted to end their own lives as a result of social factors such as debt, housing and welfare problems, or relationship breakdown, in the last two years[i] On behalf of Mind, YouGov surveyed over 1500 people online who had used mental health services in the last two years on a range of topics including issues that contributed to worsening mental health, suicidal thoughts and behaviour.
Slimming World responds to a newly released health study which reveals more adults are classified obese than underweight.
Responding to today’s publication of the End of Life Audit Usha Grieve, Director of Partnerships & Information, from Compassion in Dying said it is "beyond doubt that NHS England must do more" to transform end of life care.
All teachers should have an entitlement to mental health training, professional counselling or cognitive behaviour therapy when suffering work-related mental ill health, the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union in the UK, has heard today.
A pan-industry approach to controlling mineral dust in the workplace could help to reduce the UK’s occupational cancer burden, according to IOSH.