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22 April 2025By Daniel Pye and Sarah LowdenThe Department of Health and Social Care has said that it expects the NHS to “work quickly” in implementing new gender policies following the Supreme Court interpretation of the Equality Act. The court ruled last Wednesday that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the act “refer to a biological woman and biological sex” which means that transgender women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) can be excluded from single-sex spaces if “proportionate”.

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9 April 2025By Sarah LowdenBabies and children between 3 months and 11 years with non-severe community-acquired pneumonia should be prescribed a 3-day rather than 5-day course of antibiotics, according to new draft guidelines. The proposed updated clinical guideline from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence applies to patients without complications or underlying disease who have pneumonia which is not assessed as severe and was contracted outside of a healthcare setting. ‌‌‌‌‌‌

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iStock/utah778By Sarah LowdenThe health secretary has suggested he would support a national prostate cancer screening programme for men at higher risk of disease if it is backed by the evidence. The UK’s National Screening Committee is currently assessing whether or not a programme should be rolled out. ‌‌‌‌‌‌

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Getty/ShunreiBy Sarah Lowden The MP behind the private members' bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales has delayed its return to the House of Commons until next month. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater said the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will now return on 16 May rather than 25 April for its report stage, which is expected to see MPs vote on further amendments that were agreed at committee stage. ‌‌‌‌‌‌

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Library image. Credit: Getty/sturtiBy Sarah LowdenMore than 1,500 extra GPs have been recruited in England under the additional roles reimbursement scheme since October, the government has revealed. The hiring boost happened after the government opened up the scheme to GPs, after much campaigning for it to do so. ‌‌‌‌‌‌