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The government has confirmed that plastic straws, cotton buds (with plastic stems ) and drink stirrers will be banned from sales and use in England from April 2020. This step is hoped to massively reduce the litter and other environmental impact of 5 billion plastic straws, 300 million plastic stirrers and 2 billion cotton buds…
Family doctors are calling for GP consultations to be extended from 10 to 15 minutes so they have more time to discuss their health. The average length of GP consultations in the UK is 9.2 minutes, this is one of the lowest across economically advanced nations. According to a report, the 10 minute appointment that…
The number of people dying in the UK from heart and circulatory disease before they reach the age of 75 is increasing for the first time in 50 years according to the British Heart Foundation (BHF). There were 42,384 deaths of under 75s caused by the disease in 2017 compared with 41,042 in 2014. BHF…
A study shows that the food we eat is putting 11 million of us into an early grave each year. The analysis, in the Lancet, found that our daily diet is a bigger killer than smoking and is now involved in one in five deaths around the world. According to the researchers, salt shortened the…
According to new figures from NHS Digital show there were 338,000 admissions to hospital In 2017/18 where the main cause was to drinking alcohol. The figures are 15% higher than a decade ago. Alcohol related admissions still account for a similar percentage of overall hospital admissions (2.1% in 2017/18, 2.1% in 2016/17 and 2.3% in…
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