For UK men, lung cancer rates and deaths fell by about a quarter from 1993-2004, but rates for women barely changed, according to the analysis of cancer trends.
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New data suggests more than half of local commissioning areas are still failing to offer crisis services to patients with autism and learning disabilities, despite NHS England making this mandatory from 2019.
Policymakers should proceed with more caution over introducing nursing associates, the author of new research on the safety of the roles has told HSJ.
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