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The creation of a European Health Union
The European Commission is beginning the building of the new European Health Union to help strengthen the EU’s health security framework, and to reinforce...
Parents advised to keep childhood vaccination appointments
Public Health England (PHE) is urging parents to keep vaccination appointments for their children during national COVID-19 restrictions.
Could COVID-19 lead to measles and polio epidemics?
UNICEF and the World Health Organization are calling for emergency action to avoid potential measles and polio epidemics as COVID-19 disrupts normal immunisation programmes.
The...
Fighting for what’s right: protecting the older population
The Secretary General of the International Federation on Ageing (IFA), Dr Jane M Barratt, spoke to Health Europa Quarterly about how COVID-19 is impacting...
ADASS calls on UK Government to prioritise adult social care this winter
To ensure that working-age disabled people and older people get the care they need, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) is...
Mental health funding urgently needed as UK suicides increase
A mental health charity is calling on the UK Government to back more funding for mental health charities helping UK workers as depression and...
China’s organ harvesting crimes announced to UK research group
In a landmark speech delivered today by leading international human rights lawyer, Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, the findings of the China Tribunal were presented to...
Calls for families to see loved ones in care homes during COVID-19
A campaign has been launched to call for a lift on restrictions which prevent families from seeing their loved ones in care homes due...
Futureproofing healthcare post-pandemic
Mary Harney, Ireland’s former Minister for Health, tells us about the need for a sustainable, futureproof healthcare sector.
Mary Harney served as Ireland’s Tánaiste (the...
UK tops excess death figures in first wave
A study from Imperial College London places England, Scotland and Wales among countries with the highest rates of excess pandemic-related deaths.
With global deaths from...
World Health Summit ends with clear calls to action
The 2020 World Health Summit ended with clear calls to action to accelerate global efforts of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
After three days with...
How can medical cannabis help the UK’s chronic pain problem?
In this article Dean Billington, Chief Operating Officer at Brains Bioceutical, discusses how medical cannabis can help the UK's chronic pain problem.
Chronic pain is...
The impact of COVID-19 on the live-in care sector
Long established live-in care company Consultus Care & Nursing has been ensuring clients and staff are safe with its own testing and infection control...
Researchers provide recommendations to fix England’s test and trace
Health researchers have provided a series of recommendations to fix the struggling test, trace, and isolate system in England.
The researchers from the University College...
Herd immunity a ‘dangerous fallacy’ according to researchers
Herd immunity is a ‘dangerous fallacy’ according to 80 researchers who have penned an open letter published in The Lancet.
The researchers warn that a...
World Mental Health Day: mental health services chronically underfunded
October 10 marks World Mental Health Day, and this year the World Health Organization (WHO) is highlighting the urgent need to increase investment in...
Report recommends teaching pupils about selfcare
School pupils should learn about selfcare for minor ailments as part of a ‘wholesale cultural shift’ in attitudes towards health services, says a coalition...
MEPs call for Pharmaceutical Strategy to tackle antimicrobial resistance
MEPs have called on the European Commission to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through the new Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe.
The European Commission’s Pharmaceutical Strategy for...
Preparing for the future: global unity over pandemic preparedness
Countries have come together to recognise that the COVID-19 pandemic will not be the last global health emergency and to outline the need for...
People with dementia and carers harmed by COVID-19 social cuts
New research from the University of Liverpool has quantified the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the availability of social support, finding that the...