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Young people and experts say they support the Welsh government's plan to ban children under-16 from buying high-caffeine energy drinks.The Welsh government said that evidence suggests a link between "consumption of high-caffeine energy drinks and negative health outcomes", and...

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At last month's health committee meeting, senior staff from the Belfast Trust were questioned about their decision to cut the line as winter approached. "It's frustrating, it's not something that we wanted to do... but we felt that it...

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How much artificial intelligence is too much when you visit your doctor? Although patients are generally open to healthcare professionals using AI to handle administrative and some medical tasks, they want humans wielding the stethoscope,...

NWUHG said 60 clinicians had helped develop the review.The Case for Change argues that falling birth rates, workforce shortages and increasing numbers of women requiring more complex care are making it harder to sustain specialist services at every site.Lesley...

There's nothing new about UK health charities taking on a major role in delivering services. Prior to 1948, British healthcare was provided through a patchwork of local charities, voluntary organisations, local authorities and private arrangements. Many hospitals depended on...

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The number of deaths from cocaine use in England and Wales has nearly quadrupled in a decade, overtaking those attributed to heroin for the first time.Cocaine was linked to more than one in five drug poisoning deaths registered in...