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Fewer heat-related deaths in 2025 despite warmest summer

Summer 2025 was the warmest UK summer on record, with four heatwaves, a top temperature of nearly 38C and a mean temperature of 16.1C

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Fewer heat-related deaths in 2025 despite warmest summer

Summer 2025 was the warmest UK summer on record, with four heatwaves, a top temperature of nearly 38C and a mean temperature of 16.1C

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Review finds 250 patients need repeat bone scans

Review finds care for some patients was "below the level that would have been expected".

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Sewing group helping women in period poverty

Debi Angell says the kits they make help women and girls who can not afford period products.

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Doctors lose new jobs package as strike to go ahead

The offer of 1,000 more training posts has been withdrawn after the union refused to scrap the planned six-day strike.

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Newly qualified paramedics told to apply for jobs abroad due to hire freeze

The Welsh Ambulance Service said newly qualified paramedics would not be offered roles this year due to "financial and operational issues".

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How dads are bonding over learning to braid hair

Social club the Secret Life of Dads aims to provide a safe space for dads to bond with each other, and to learn skills to help them at home.

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Newly qualified paramedics told to apply for jobs abroad due to hire freeze

The Welsh Ambulance Service said newly qualified paramedics would not be offered roles this year due to "financial and operational issues".

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‘Would I have made it to 60 if my cancer symptoms weren’t detected?’

Marie McGrath was diagnosed with bowel cancer at the start of 2026

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Warning to patients ahead of next doctors’ strike

The industrial action is due to start on 7 April and there is likely to be disruption to services.

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