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NICE updates guideline on alcohol education in schools
12/02/2019
New draft recommendations will support the Department for Education’s (DfE) plan to make alcohol education a compulsory component of personal, social and health education (PSHE) in all state-funded schools in England from September 2020.
The guideline has been developed by NICE and Public Health England.
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EMAS rated ‘Good’ overall and ‘Outstanding’ for caring in latest inspection
17/07/2019
East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) is delighted to announce that we have been rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and ‘Outstanding’ for caring. To read the full article please click here .
HPV vaccine could prevent over 100,000 cancers
11/07/2019
Estimates suggest that the HPV vaccine programme could prevent over 64,000 cervical cancers and nearly 50,000 non-cervical cancers by 2058. From September 2019, boys in school year 8 will be offered the free Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine for the first time. Worldwide, about 5% of all cancers...
