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Infections & Vaccines

BBC Health 19 Mar 2026

Patients harmed as Covid pandemic brought NHS close to collapse, inquiry finds

Third report into the pandemic says patients and staff were failed as health service only just coped.

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Infections & Vaccines

NHS 19 Mar 2026

Expansion of Meningitis B vaccination offer to Kent Students

The Meningitis B vaccine will now be offered to everyone who has been offered preventative antibiotic treatment as part of…

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Cancer

NICE 19 Mar 2026

Kidney cancer

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Cancer

NICE 19 Mar 2026

Kidney cancer: diagnosis and management

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NICE 19 Mar 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to help detect or characterise colorectal polyps

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BBC Health 19 Mar 2026

Better NHS care might have saved 58 babies, BBC finds

There are growing calls for a statutory public inquiry into maternity services in Oxford.

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BBC Health 18 Mar 2026

Why has this meningitis outbreak spread so fast?

There have been 20 cases since the weekend in one small area of Kent - but this isn't the normal…

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NICE 18 Mar 2026

Off-pump minimal access mitral valve repair by artificial chordae insertion to treat mitral regurgitation

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NHS 17 Mar 2026

Meningitis outbreak in Canterbury and east Kent

The Secretary of State Wes Streeting updated the House of Commons on the meningitis outbreak and the latest steps being…

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Cancer

NICE 17 Mar 2026

Nivolumab with chemotherapy for untreated unresectable or metastatic urothelial cancer (terminated appraisal)

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