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Business week 17: Public finances in rude health as stability programme update due this week
The Government will publish the stability programme update (SPU) this week. The SPU is published every spring as part of an EU economic surveillance process.
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Public needs to lose weight to help cut NHS waiting lists, says health minister
Eluned Morgan, the cabinet secretary for health in Wales, has called for the public to lead healthier lives to tackle growing NHS waiting lists.
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100 day cough: Public health advice as whooping cough on the rise in Derry & across the north
The ‘Journal’ asked various health bodies for information and comment after numerous reports of people being affected by a persistent coughing condition day and night and lasting for weeks on end, with some needing multiple courses of antibiotics and steroids to help rid them of what appears to be an infection. Latest statistics reveal that there have been over 460 cases of ‘clinically suspected’ whooping cough, which is also called pertussis, notified to the Public Health Agency since January...