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Using routinely collected primary and secondary care data, Karen D Coulman and colleagues investigate how access to weight management services varies across England.

The Pharmaceutical Journal from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

A high likelihood of generating false positive results can lead to the medicalisation of the healthy

Boris Johnson has promised to ‘throw everything at’ the booster programme over the next couple of months

Exclusive: Sajid Javid locked in talks with BMA about relaxing rules in order to help deliver Covid booster programme

Practices to receive share of ‘winter access fund’ if they increase in-person appointments

There is discord over the health secretary’s desire for doctors to provide more face-to-face appointments

Updated statistics on dementia prevalence, hospital admissions, care and mortality, at the national and subnational geographical areas in England.

GPs are being put under pressure, an MLA has said, to staff Covid centres with a warning they could be financially penalised if they refuse. The Health & Social Care Board has written to a number of practices urging them "once again to reconsider your decision" not to work in the centres. The letter then states that, as no-one from the surgery is working in a Covid centre, it must now provide evidence that it has met targets in order to be eligible for payments that recognise good clinical pra...