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People will be automatically sent the test in the post, which involves them collecting a sample of their poo and returning it in pre-paid packaging

Some 830,000 additional people aged 58 in England will be eligible for the faecal immunochemical test, NHS England said.

Clinical judgements and the clinical counselling at the Tavistock Centre, which since 1989 has provided the UK’s only gender identity clinic for children and young people, now seem set to be examined by the courts in clinical negligence claims brought by some former patients.

Unions are balloting NHS members

NHS England credits James’s campaign to raise awareness for surge in number of people referred for checks

Health leaders expect combination of Covid and flu to pile pressures on services that are already stretched

The drop in two-year waits is ‘faint glimmer of light’ among otherwise ‘dire statistics’, commentators said.

Ambulance response times to the most urgent incidents are the joint worst on record.

A record 29,317 people had to wait more than 12 hours to be admitted, up 33% from the previous month.

'For every four weeks of delayed treatment, there is a 10 per cent reduction in survival rates'

Leading sexual health expert predicts a gap of almost one month before supplies are replenished