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A report from NHS Health Scotland finds that a ban on multi-buy promotions and restrictions on alcohol promotion has led to a reduction in some alcohol sales from shops in its first year. The decrease was largely driven by a statistically significant decrease in off-trade wine sales. Similar changes were not observed in England & Wales, where the ban does not apply.

To mark World Asthma Day, Asthma UK launches Compare Your Care, making use of the NHS Atlas of Variation for Respiratory Disease. In Tees Valley the atlas shows higher levels of recorded asthma in Stockton than elsewhere, high adult asthma admission rates in Hartlepool and high child asthma admission rates in Middlesbrough.

A national catch-up programme to increase MMR vaccination uptake in children and teenagers is announced today by Public Health England, NHS England and the Department of Health. The aim of the programme is to prevent measles outbreaks by vaccinating as many unvaccinated and partially vaccinated 10-16 year-olds as possible in time for the next school year.