An NHS trust in a region grappling with severe childhood obesity has provoked alarm after advising parents to use chocolate buttons, crisps, and biscuits as weaning foods for babies struggling…
Author: James Whitfield
James Whitfield
Editor-in-Chief
James Whitfield is the Editor-in-Chief of Health News Daily, bringing over 15 years of experience in health journalism. A former health correspondent for regional UK publications, James oversees editorial policy, standards and final approval of all published content. He specialises in NHS policy, healthcare reform and the political decisions that shape the UK's health system. James is committed to delivering accurate, transparent and trustworthy health reporting for UK readers.
· 15+ years in health journalism, former regional health correspondent, newsroom editorial leadership
· NHS funding and workforce planning, waiting list policy, primary care access, GP and dentistry shortages, Continuing Healthcare assessments, health legislation and DHSC decisions
Britain has enacted one of the world’s most stringent anti-smoking laws, permanently banning the sale of tobacco to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009. The Tobacco and Vapes…
A midwife admitted at an inquest that an ambulance should have been summoned 90 minutes before a baby was born “blue and floppy” at a home birth, a failure which…
In a landmark case of fetal medicine, a baby boy received a life-saving blood transfusion while still in his mother’s womb, a procedure believed to make him the youngest person…
The sharp decline in public toilet provision across England is creating a public health crisis, with its most severe impacts falling on society’s most vulnerable. The loss of these facilities…
The government’s relaunched Women’s Health Strategy, while ambitious in its aims to tackle systemic bias in the NHS, risks perpetuating the very health inequalities it seeks to solve if it…
Thousands of children across the UK, many of them neurodivergent, may be suffering from the debilitating effects of chronic urinary tract infections, a condition medical experts warn is notoriously difficult…
In a matter of hours, the life of 26-year-old Rebecca Waller was irrevocably changed. What began as an immense pressure in her upper back and pins and needles in her…
The funeral of Felicia Cox, a nurse whose pioneering work transformed the standards of pain management across the UK and Europe, was held on Thursday at St Paul’s Catholic Church…
Fourteen months into a deeply contentious tenure by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the United States’ premier public health agency is being hollowed out from the top down. Eighty…