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Hospital obesity treatments quadruple over five years

28.10.09
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NHS: Smoking ban made no difference

30.09.09
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One in every 100 adults has autism

22.09.09
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GPs’ average salary drops to £106,000

16.09.09
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London children 'catching up' with the MMR vaccine

03.09.09
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More patients seen by nurses at GP surgeries

02.09.09
More than one third of patients at GP surgeries are seen by nurses rather than doctors, new figures show... more

£74m quitting campaign goes up in smoke

20.08.09
NHS is spending more than ever on helping smokers quit - but the number of people giving up has dropped... more

'Burden on NHS' as surgery for obesity rises by 50% in a year

11.08.09
The number of people having surgery on the NHS for obesity has rocketed, new figures show... more

Top dentists earning more than £300,000 a year

04.08.09
Dentists earn an average of £89,062 in England and Wales, figures show. The data, for dentists in 2007/08, was released by the NHS Information Centre ... more

Slump 'drives thousands to depression pills'

30.07.09
Recession is being blamed for a big rise in Londoners taking anti-depressants... more

Hundreds of patients get liposuction on NHS

19.06.09
Hundreds of patients have had free liposuction at NHS hospitals across London, figures reveal... more

Fewer smokers quit despite record £51m spend by NHS

16.04.09
The number of people giving up smoking has dropped sharply despite the NHS spending more than ever on helping them quit... more

More women seek mental health help

24.03.09
A growing number of women are seeking help for mental health problems, new data shows... more

Hospitals see 40% drop in stab victims in six months

13.03.09
The number of stabbing victims being admitted to London hospitals has dropped by 40 per cent in six months... more

One in four offenders caught with knife gets a caution

12.03.09
A quarter of knife offenders are still being let off with a caution despite government promises that they would face "severe" punishments, figures reveal... more

Hundreds of teenagers taken to hospital with stab wounds

26.02.09
The scale of London's epidemic of youth violence has been revealed... more

Surgery for the obese on NHS goes up by 40 per cent

25.02.09
The number of obese people who underwent surgery to help them slim on the NHS increased by 40 per cent last year, new figures show... more

More suffer from depression and anxiety

27.01.09
More women than ever are suffering from depression and anxiety, figures reveal... more

No smoking in the dragon's den

22.01.09
Entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne cut off his daughter's trust fund after he caught her smoking... more

One in three children is too fat by the age of 11

11.12.08
Nearly a third of children are officially overweight or obese by the time they reach secondary school, figures reveal... more

NHS dentists seen by 1.2m fewer people

27.11.08
Half of all British people are not seeing an NHS dentist, figures have revealed... more

Measles timebomb... just 49 per cent of children have MMR

24.09.08
Less than half of London's five-year-olds have been vaccinated against measles amid warnings of an epidemic in the capital, it has emerged... more

Dentists' salaries soar as waiting lists grow

16.09.08
Salaries for dentists have soared despite long waiting lists for patients, it emerged... more

Dentists pull out more teeth under 'botched' contract

21.08.08
Dentists are becoming more likely to remove their patients' teeth than fit fillings or crowns, figures reveal... more

Hospital admissions for drugs soar by 35 per cent

14.08.08
More than two thousand people were rushed to hospital in London after taking drugs in one year, new figures reveal... more

Councils sign up to Boris alcohol ban on under-21s

18.07.08
A ban on selling alcohol to young adults looks set to be rolled out across London after councils gave their backing to the groundbreaking anti-binge drinking plan... more

Children are turning their backs on drink and cigarettes

17.07.08
Schoolchildren are turning their backs on alcohol, new figures reveal... more

NHS wastes millions on smokers who fail to quit

22.04.08
The NHS faces accusations that it wasted millions of pounds trying to help smokers to quit... more

38% in London fail to have NHS breast checks

25.02.08
More than a third of women in London are failing to use NHS breast cancer screening - and the capital has the lowest take-up rate in England... more

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