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Government unveils new Obesity Strategy

The Department of Health and Social Care has unveiled its new Obesity Strategy as it begins to encourage people to lose weight to help beat coronavirus and protect the NHS.....read more

Weight loss advice for those at risk of diabetes

Sir Simon Stevens has announced that people who are at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes will be fast-tracked into the flagship Healthier You NHS Diabetes Prevention programme.....read more

Armed Forces to hand over Mobile Testing Unit control

Military support to the National Testing Programme will be handed over in coming weeks as the government pursues a long-term plan to deliver coronavirus tests.....read more

Only 19 bereaved families approved for compensation scheme

Only 19 families of NHS and social care workers who died after contracting coronavirus have so far been approved for the government's £60,000 compensation payment.....read more

Childcare costs for doctors to be covered

The NHS has launched a new scheme to encourage hundreds more doctors to return to general practice by offering help towards the costs of caring for children or family members.....read more

FEATURES

Meeting the ever-changing and urgent demand for space

Simon Taylor, head of Portfolio Optimisation at NHS Property Services, discusses how the NHS and wider healthcare system will need to optimise its facilities post-coronavirus.....read more

Why digital transformation matters more than ever

Sascha Giese explores how the UK healthcare sector has digitally transformed - and must continue to - to cope with the coronavirus pandemic.....read more