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The creation of a European Health Union

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...
childhood vaccinations

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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 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

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...
NHSCC report recommends teaching pupils about selfcare

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 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

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

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...

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