NHS News

• NHS weekly winter operational update for the week ending 16 January 2022
• NHS cancer checks at record high with quarter of a million in one month
• Cold weather alert: Level 2 – alert and readiness
• NHS urges people to ‘grab a jab’ during week of walk-ins
• Cold weather alert: Level 1 – winter preparedness and action

BBC Health News

• PM announces end to Plan B Covid measures
  Various restrictions in England, including the recommendation to work from home, will be lifted.
• Team GB gymnasts join defibrillator campaign
  Becky and Ellie Downie have joined a defibrillator campaign after their brother suffered a cardiac arrest.
• Covid-19: Cases falling in UK cautiously good news – epidemiologist
  Epidemiologist Professor Mike Tildesley says we could be seeing the Omicron wave turning around.
• Covid vaccine: Your concerns answered
  BBC Reality Check answers your vaccine concerns – from pregnancy fears to production speed.
• The inventor inspired by a near-death experience
  He nearly died after being given fake medicines. Now, his invention can spot them.

PatientInfo News

• Painkillers and heart attack – new day, new concerns
• Doctors and the DVLA: what does updated guidance mean for patients?
• Stroke surgery – a brave new world?
• Why are Americans dying so needlessly?
• The abnormal heart rhythm you can't afford to miss