uk-hotdailynews: 2014-12-29 U.K. Health

Smoking rot highlighted in campaign
BBC News
Smoking "rots" the body from within, warns this year's quit smoking campaign from Public Health England (PHE). The graphic online and print billboard adverts feature a roll-up cigarette full of decaying tissue. While many smokers know the damage tobacco ...

Roll-ups are just as harmful as manufactured cigarettes   Telegraph.co.uk
Anti-smoking adverts accused of 'scaremongering'   The Independent
Medical chief warns roll-up cigarettes 'just as bad for you'   Daily Mail
Mirror.co.uk
Metro
Bradford Telegraph and Argus
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Warning over reliance on foreign recruits as NHS temporary staff costs soar
Yorkshire Post
Hospitals across Yorkshire are facing soaring costs for temporary doctors and nurses as health chiefs battle to plug shortages of key staff. Latest figures reveal costs in the region's hospitals for locum doctors and bank and agency nurses are nearly 25 per cent ...

More than 20 NHS bosses on £300000 a YEAR as 300 operations a DAY are ...   Mirror.co.uk
Number of NHS managers being paid more than £300000 a year doubles in just ...   Daily Mail
The rise of the £300000 NHS fatcats   Telegraph.co.uk
South Yorkshire Times
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NHS hampered by poor management structure, Rose report claims
The Guardian
Rose is expected to conclude that the NHS is staffed by dedicated employees with a willingness to improve but who are held back by poor practices. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images. Patrick Wintour. Sunday 28 December 2014 15.27 EST.
Cancelled NHS operations soar   Financial Times
Cancelled operations during Christmas total more than 300 a day as NHS bed ...   The Independent
3000 operations cancelled as NHS struggles to cope with unprecedented demand   Telegraph.co.uk
Belfast Telegraph
Full-Time Whistle
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NHS chief declares war on obesity as it's revealed Britain is only behind ...
Daily Mail
Britain needs to 'get back in shape' if a public health catastrophe is to be avoided, the head of the NHS warns today. Simon Stevens is to launch a national anti-obesity drive in the new year – as a report finds Britain is now the second fattest country in Europe.
NHS will offer diet and exercise support to obese Brits   The Independent
Nationwide effort targets obesity   Belfast Telegraph
NHS chief urges nation to get back in shape   Yorkshire Post
Sky News
The Times (subscription)
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'Recycle' those unwanted gifts
Buckingham Advertiser
Your unwanted Christmas gifts could go to others who want them, and help fund life-saving research at the same time. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is urging people to donate their unwanted Christmas presents to its charity shops, including the one in ...

British Heart Foundation appeals for unwanted Christmas gifts   Harlow Star
British Heart Foundation appeals for unwanted presents in North Devon   North Devon Journal
Two unwanted gifts in majority of Herts stockings, so who could benefit?   Royston Crow
Kidderminster Shuttle
Daily Echo
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Metro

Britain's poor 'cannot afford to eat sufficient calories' for the first time since WWII
Metro
A report suggesting millions of the poorest Britons are struggling to get sufficient calories to maintain their body weight for the first time since the Second World War has been called 'shocking' by commentators. The recommended calorie intake is around 2,080 ...

UK poorest may be at risk of malnutrition, according to government figures   International Business Times UK
Millions of Britons struggling to feed themselves and facing malnourishment   The Independent
Millions of impoverished Britons malnourished – report   RT

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PHOTOS: Dartmoor fungus 'octopus stinkhorn' resembles a real octopus
Western Daily Press
A rare fungus with an uncanny resemblance to an octopus has been spotted on Devon Wildlife Trust nature reserves in Dartmoor. The weird pink organism is truly exotic, as its original home is on the other side of the world. Clathrus archeri rejoices in two ...

A smelly Dartmoor plant that looks like a sea creature has been dubbed 'Octopus ...   Plymouth Herald
Rare octopus fungi snapped by walker   Mid Devon Gazette
Pictured: Walker finds bizarre rare octopus stinkhorn fungus on Dartmoor   Exeter Express and Echo

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Cancer could be cut in 600000 cases by a healthier lifestyle
Daily Times
Healthier living could have prevented four out of 10 cases of cancer in the UK in the last five years, experts claim today, mirror.co.uk reports. Smoking accounted for about 314,000 of the 600,000 cases, Cancer Research UK said. But the charity added that a ...

Life choices 'behind more than four in 10 cancers'   Naija247news
600000 cancers 'avoided by healthier livestyles'   Yorkshire Post
600000 cancer cases 'avoidable'   The Courier
Diabetes Insider
Tech Times
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