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The government has announced its new national action plan on antimicrobial resistance to protect people and animals from the risk of drug-resistant infections.

• Updated: 8 May 2024

An MHRA and NICE partnership, funded by Wellcome, is addressing key challenges for regulating and evaluating digital mental health technologies (DMHTs) with input from patients, the public and mental health professionals.

• Updated: 7 May 2024

Ofsted and the CQC have today published a joint thematic review of Start for Life services, which provide support for parents from pregnancy until their baby is 2 years old.

• Updated: 7 May 2024

The MHRA has authorised cabotegravir as 30 mg tablets and as a 600 mg long-acting injection administered every two months

• Updated: 3 May 2024

Letter from the Independent Reconfiguration Panel Chair to the Rt Hon Andrew Stephenson CBE MP, Minister of State (Minister for Health and Secondary Care).

• Updated: 3 May 2024

Regular measles statistics updates issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).

• Updated: 2 May 2024

The MHRA has today set out its strategic approach to artificial intelligence (AI)

• Updated: 30 April 2024

The British Embassy in Kuala Lumpur in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, successfully hosted a roundtable discussion on Antimicrobial Resistance yesterday (on 29 Apr…

• Updated: 30 April 2024

Proposed updates to NHS Constitution for England will reflect biological needs of patients and empower people to request same-sex wards and care.

• Updated: 30 April 2024

Further measures to be introduced to ensure patients who are prescribed montelukast for the treatment of asthma are informed of the risk of neuropsychiatric reactions

• Updated: 29 April 2024

The MHRA will introduce a patient alert card to increase awareness among men taking finasteride about potential psychiatric and sexual side effects

• Updated: 29 April 2024

Transcript of Minister Whately's speech at the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) spring seminar.

• Updated: 26 April 2024

The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI) and NHS England (NHSE) have signed a Collaboration Charter to support the use of AI in the NHS. 

• Updated: 25 April 2024

Imported malaria cases diagnosed in 2023 exceed 2000 for the first time in over 20 years

• Updated: 24 April 2024

Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire promotes the UK’s balanced approach towards tackling drug use, with a focus on the challenge of synthetic opioids.

• Updated: 23 April 2024

DASA seeks innovations to provide protection for land based assets from air attacks

• Updated: 17 April 2024

Statement to Parliament from Health Minister, Andrea Leadsom, at the second reading of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.

• Updated: 17 April 2024

Professor Sir Chris Whitty writes for The Guardian on smoking addiction and MPs' historic opportunity to vote on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.

• Updated: 16 April 2024

MPs to vote on legislation to create first smokefree generation, protecting young people turning 15 this year or younger from harms of smoking.

• Updated: 16 April 2024

As delivered by Rt Hon Victoria Atkins MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

• Updated: 16 April 2024