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Mental health
What age do mental health conditions develop at?
Mental health spending in the English NHS
Has the number of teenage girls self-harming doubled?
Mental health: there are fewer beds, nurses and psychiatry trainees than in 2010
Mental Health in England: Jeremy Hunt vs Ralf Little
Mental health during pregnancy
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14th Jun 2019
We can’t explicitly link 130,000 preventable deaths to austerity
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14th Jun 2019
These food facts are mostly incorrect or misleading
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14th Jun 2019
You’ve less than a one in three chance of reaching 100
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13th Jun 2019
Does it cost more to watch TV in hospital than in prison?
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6th Jun 2019
This post greatly exaggerates the risks of infection from people who have just been vaccinated
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30th May 2019
This FOI about vaccines is real
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23rd May 2019
Has cocaine use really doubled in five years?
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17th May 2019
Mental health spending in the English NHS
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15th May 2019
The heart disease death rate isn’t increasing
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13th May 2019
GP numbers: up or down?
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12th Apr 2019
There isn’t good data on how much the NHS spends on translators
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4th Apr 2019
Have 200,000 nurses quit the NHS?
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26th Mar 2019
Reports on the benefits of 10 minutes of exercise need a health warning
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8th Mar 2019
Period poverty: how widespread is it?
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8th Mar 2019
Don’t attempt ‘cough CPR’ if you think you’re having a heart attack