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Richard Walsh makes the case for greater collaboration on group income protection

A report looking at health apps, for diabetes, asthma and the NHS' health apps library, has found problems with all of them.

The NHS Health Check programme is spending up to £450,000 per death avoided, which could be better spent, a report from the London School of Economics and University of Liverpool has said.

The NHS has met the majority of its cancer waiting targets, however it has missed two, figures for July 2015 have revealed.

South Kent Coast NHS clinical commissioning group (CCG) is to sign a contract allowing two France-based healthcare providers to treat patients across the Channel.

The NHS has proposed removing some drugs from the list of those funded by the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF).

The four year crude survival rate for head and neck cancers varies by over 30% depending on the type of cancer, an audit has found.

UK employees are not doing enough to improve their health and wellbeing, with 20% of men and 15% of women not getting their "five-a-day."

Older cancer patients are no less likely to refuse treatment than younger patients, but are less likely to receive treatment, research from Macmillan has found.

Two think tanks have called for the NHS to have a transformation fund, at a cost of £9.4bn to help it improve efficiency and develop new models of care.