Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has written to primary care trusts to ask them to offer the MMR vaccine to all under-18s who have not been vaccinated.
London trusts will get an additional£60,000 and others£30,000 in their annual settlement to pay for the campaign, prompted by a rise in cases of measles.
Download the CMO's letter at www.dh.gov.uk
Jeremy Hunt’s statement in Parliament about failures in the national breast screening programme was based on incorrect information from Public Health England, according to an independent review published today.
England’s breast screening programme is running on IT systems with “multiple practical issues and risk associated with their operation”, according to an official investigation report obtained by HSJ.
Experts have questioned the decision to introduce a new mental health role in schools, rather than upskill the existing registered nurse workforce.
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