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BBC Health Infectious Disease
Stay at home advice questioned and rules too tough – key findings from Covid report
An NHS close to collapse, patients failed and NHS staff put at risk - what you need to know. This update is…
19 Mar 2026 View brief →
BBC Health Infectious Disease
Patients harmed as Covid pandemic brought NHS close to collapse, inquiry finds
Third report into the pandemic says patients and staff were failed as health service only just coped. This update is most useful…
19 Mar 2026 View brief →
UKHSA Infectious Disease
Expansion of Meningitis B vaccination offer to Kent Students
Meningitis B vaccine is being expanded in Kent to all contacts who receive prophylactic antibiotics during this outbreak response This represents a…
19 Mar 2026 View brief →
BBC Health
Better NHS care might have saved 58 babies, BBC finds
There are growing calls for a statutory public inquiry into maternity services in Oxford. This update is best treated as a linked…
19 Mar 2026 View brief →
BBC Health Infectious Disease
Why has this meningitis outbreak spread so fast?
There have been 20 cases since the weekend in one small area of Kent - but this isn't the normal pattern, so…
18 Mar 2026 View brief →
NHS England
Stronger visiting rights for people in health and care settings
The government will better protect and strengthen the visiting rights for people in health and care settings, following a review of Regulation…
18 Mar 2026 View brief →
NHS England
Patients to get new medicines up to six months sooner under new joint MHRA-NICE approval process
New pathway set to synchronise licensing and value assessment decisions This update is best treated as a linked clinical news item for…
17 Mar 2026 View brief →
NHS England Respiratory / COPD / Asthma
Asthma and COPD patients to receive better care closer to home
Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients will receive better care closer to home under a landmark £10 million partnership. This…
17 Mar 2026 View brief →
NHS England Infectious Disease
Meningitis outbreak in Canterbury and east Kent
The Secretary of State Wes Streeting updated the House of Commons on the meningitis outbreak and the latest steps being taken to…
17 Mar 2026 View brief →
BBC Health Infectious Disease
Inside Health
James Gallagher examines the outbreak of bacterial meningitis in Kent. This update is most useful for vaccination advice, risk communication, and frontline…
17 Mar 2026 View brief →