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The Government’s response to a consultation on advertising restrictions for products high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) commits to a 9pm TV watershed for HFSS products and a total restriction of paid-for HFSS advertising online at the end of 2022.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published a draft health and social care data strategy to give patients better access and greater control over their health and care data.

Sajid Javid has been appointed Health and Social Care Secretary following the resignation of his predecessor Matt Hancock, who stepped down after CCTV photographs were leaked of him kissing an aide inside the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) building on 6 May 2021.

In order to give workers access to legal protections and compensation, the TUC is calling for long Covid to be recognised as a disability and Covid-19 as an occupational disease.

If all necessary vaccination and harm reduction measures are met, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced, the whole of Scotland will move to Level 0 on 19 July.

As long ago as 2019, the UK Government confirmed that, following the decision to leave the EU, it was introducing the “UK GDPR” which is essentially the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) with necessary changes such as introducing references to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in place of the European Commission.

The collection of data on complaints to GP practices through the KO14b form, which was suspended in the Covid-19 pandemic last year, is to restart on 9 August 2021.

NHS England has announced £20 million for a new GP weight management directed enhanced service (DES), which will encourage GPs to develop a “supportive environment” to engage with obese patients about their weight.

NHS Chief Executive Sir Simon Stevens announced last week that all people aged 18 years or over are now being urged to get a Covid-19 vaccination if they have not yet had one.

According to the British Safety Council (BSC), the number of adults living with diabetes has more than tripled over the past 20 years and it is now one of the fastest growing health challenges of the 21st century.