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Weight-loss jabs — known as GLP-1 receptor agonists — could transform healthcare far beyond obesity treatment, according to leading doctors and a major new study.

The NHS faces a significant digitisation cost of £21bn over five years, encompassing infrastructure, cyber security, and ongoing maintenance expenses.

Good Morning, Britain! Much of the UK is set for another lovely, sunny day – we hope you can make the most of it, as wet weather is on its way next week.


EU leaders are gathering in Brussels today for a special council on defence. It comes amid heightened tensions in the region, with Macron warning the continent was at a “turning point of history.”


Closer to home, one of the most interesting stories reports that, for the first time, female doctors outnumber male doctors in the UK.

“The culture of routine overspending without consequences is over”, Wes Streeting has warned, as he unveiled a new, trimmed-down mandate…

Underperforming NHS hospitals to be named and shamed in league tables in bid to end rewards for failure Failing hospitals…

NHS is drinking in ‘last chance saloon’, says Labour health advisor The NHS has been warned it is “drinking in…

Unemployed to be given weight-loss jab to help them back into work, government announces Unemployed people will be given weight-loss…

Pregnant women and older people in England offered RSV vaccine on NHS Programme for respiratory syncytial virus could prevent estimated…

Alzheimer’s ‘wonder drug’ won’t be available on NHS because it’s too costly The NHS spending watchdog has recommended that a…

The contaminated blood scandal, also known as the infected blood scandal, is a British medical scandal in which a large number of people were infected with hepatitis C and HIV.