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The number of registered deaths in the UK in 2013 was 576,458, down 13% from the number in 1983, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures for 2013 have revealed.

Labour has promised a £330m cancer treatment fund which will fund drugs, radiotherapy and surgery beyond what the current Cancer Drugs Fund offers, if the party wins the next election.

CIExpert has given its verdict on Old Mutual Wealth's critical illness (CI) changes including conditions new to CI.

NHS England has made available data on surgeons' performance with an increase in the number of surgeons in the data and surgeries covered.

More than a thousand people will be diagnosed with cancer everyday in the UK in December 2016 pushing the NHS to 'the limit', according to analysis from Macmillan Cancer Support.

Patients are waiting more than 30 days to get the results of x-rays and scans interpreted by a radiologist, a report by the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) has found.

NHS England has announced that changes to the Cancer Drugs Fund will go ahead and they will evaluate the ‘cost effectiveness' of medicines available through the Fund for the first time.

Long term shift work is linked to impaired brain power, research published in Occupational & Environmental Medicine has found.

Patients with lung cancer diagnosed when they go to hospital as an emergency often had difficulties in seeing their GP, a study has found.

Unum has launched a set of workshops to help employers spot and manage some of the most common causes of sickness absence.