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UK government publishes 10 Year Health Plan for England to ‘reinvent’ NHS

The plan’s three overarching themes are hospital to community, analogue to digital and sickness to prevention

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BioNTech announces £1bn UK investment to boost regional R&D presence

The UK government has also agreed to award the company a grant of up to £129m

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UK government’s AMR study highlights importance of appropriate antibiotic use

The UKHSA found that some bacteria are already becoming resistant to ceftazidime/avibactam

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Prime minister unveils UK government’s plans to abolish NHS England

The move aims to cut waiting times and free up money for front-line services

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UK government launches ‘landmark’ AI breast cancer screening trial

Approximately 55,000 cases of the disease are diagnosed every year in the UK

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UK study shows RSV vaccine could reduce antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance

The new analysis found that RSV infections lead to 640,000 antibiotic prescriptions every year

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NHS England begins newborn screening programme to identify rare genetic conditions

The Generation Study is aiming to screen 100,000 newborns for more than 200 diseases

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UK government launches £400m investment programme to support clinical research

Up to 18 clinical trial hubs will be created to accelerate the development of new drugs

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UK government announces national RSV vaccination programme for infants and older adults

The respiratory virus accounts for about 30,000 hospitalisations in children under five every year in the UK

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UK government launches five-year national action plan for antimicrobial resistance

It is estimated that 1.27 million global deaths in 2019 were caused by antibiotic-resistant infections

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MHRA approves TMC Pharma’s Nulibry to treat rare genetic disease MoCD type A

Molybdenum cofactor deficiency is estimated to affect one in 100,000 to 200,000 newborns worldwide

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Ionis shares positive late-stage results for olezarsen in familial chylomicronaemia syndrome

The rare genetic disease is estimated to affect up to 13 people per million in the US

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