Category: Health & wellbeing

Breakfast clubs must be for all children in England, say disability charities

Campaigners want Labour’s key education policy to provide food for all primary aged pupils rather than just in schools Ministers are coming under mounting pressure to extend free ­breakfast clubs in primary schools to...

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Tory health reforms left UK open to Covid calamity, says top doctor’s report

Britain’s pandemic response was among the worst and the NHS had been ‘seriously weakened’, says leading surgeonBritain was hit far harder by the Covid-19 pandemic than other developed countries because the NHS...

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‘A full tummy means pupils can concentrate.’ But is Labour’s school breakfast plan bold enough?

A Midlands school outlines its flexible approach to running its daily club and reacts to Labour’s £365m free breakfast policy It is just gone 7.30am at The Priory primary school in Wednesbury, near Walsall, and...

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Failure to stem rising cost of formula in UK putting babies at risk, say experts

Leading doctors and charities urge children’s health minister to take action to support struggling familiesFailure to tackle the cost of soaring infant formula is creating a crisis of infant hunger and putting the health...

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Wet UK summer brings high hopes for spectacular autumn display

National Trust predicts reversal of last year’s dull October and November, with show starting in ScotlandAfter a disappointing season last year when the wrong sort of weather at the wrong time made the autumnal colours of...

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Ultra-processed food raises risk of heart attack and stroke, two studies show

Research presented to annual meeting of European Society of Cardiology prompts calls for action Ultra-processed food significantly raises the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, heart attacks and strokes, according to...

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