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The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has advised that a new oral tablet could be offered to thousands of women with fibroids to help avoid invasive surgery.

NHS England has revealed that the development of a “long-term NHS vaccination service” has now commenced.

The Department of Health and Social Care has announced that it is on track to deliver 26,000 more primary care staff to help improve patient access to appointments.

In June 2021, the Home Office launched a consultation into proposals to implement the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations on Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) in high-rise residential buildings.

The Home Office has published a White Paper, Reforming our Fire and Rescue Service: Building Professionalism, Boosting Performance and Strengthening Governance, and launched a consultation seeking views on these proposals to introduce system-wide reform of services in England.

The Construction Leadership Council’s (CLC) Product Availability Group (PAG) has issued its latest statement regarding the supply of construction products.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has published two reports: one on how well the medical profession was protected during the pandemic and one on the effect of the pandemic on the profession.

Social services directors in Wales have warned that they are unable to recruit and retain home care workers and that people are being placed in care homes because there are too few staff to support them in their own homes.

Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid has confirmed that a ten-year plan to tackle dementia is to be published later this year, as he announced plans to work across the Government to boost the £375 million already committed for research into neurodegenerative diseases.

Care provider Anchor has launched a dementia music therapy research project in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University’s Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, with funding from The Utley Foundation.