Available for over a year This week we’re looking at government plans to start sequencing the DNA of every newborn baby in England within the next decade. Each newborn would undergo whole genome sequencing to assess their risk of hundreds of diseases, under NHS plans. It promises a revolution in spotting disease early – but […]

The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced. The move was based on the spread of cases in 2024 when there were nearly 3,000 cases in England and Wales. Elimination status means there is no sustained transmission so this decision was largely expected, given the scale of the outbreaks

BBC Allana Falconer has competed in 20 different Hyrox races since taking it up in 2023 Hyrox is a fitness craze that shows no signs of dying out – with 1.3m people expected to compete in an event somewhere in the world this year. The competition, which is split between running and fitness exercises, has

Nick Triggle,Health correspondentand Elena Bailey,Health reporter Getty Images Tens of thousands of children in England have spent more than a year waiting for NHS community care such as hearing services, speech and language therapy and disability support, the BBC has found. The analysis shows a quarter of the 300,000 children on waiting lists have been

Available for over a year When she was 14, Krystal Evans survived a lethal house fire. Years later, to come to terms with what she’d experienced, she turned it into a stand-up show. The women in Krystal’s family have always been funny, she says; her mother was no exception. But as well as being hilarious

Jessica Mason Jessica says women-specific health issues are too often dismissed A woman with cervical cancer who waited years to be diagnosed says she has “lost her faith in doctors”. Jessica Mason went back and forth to her GP and hospital with swelling, bleeding and pain in her vagina but says she was “fobbed off”

Iolo Cheung, BBC Wales and Jacob Morris, Newyddion S4CBBC Wales Tessa Marshall Tessa Marshall says without access to abortion, she would probably have a 13-year-old child now A candidate for the Senedd election in May has said she hopes sharing her own experience of having an abortion aged 15 will empower others to “understand the

Maternity services at a trust have again been rated inadequate following unannounced inspections by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The health watchdog carried out inspections in June and July last year at Bedford Hospital and Luton and Dunstable Hospital (L&D). It found that only minimal improvements had been made, with the services remaining in breach

The Health Secretary has admitted the NHS is “falling short” on meeting demand for adult autism and ADHD diagnosis. Speaking to BBC Radio Oxford, he was responding to a question about adult referrals having been paused in Oxfordshire since 2024. But he said it was a national issue that he was “very worried about”. When

Stuart WhincupNorth East and Cumbria Family handouts The families of Christie Harnett, Nadia Sharif and Emily Moore campaigned for a public inquiry into the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Trust Families and former patients who say they were “failed” by a health trust are meeting to discuss what they would like to see covered in