As the first phase of a campaign by the Welsh Government kick starts, across Wales, parents and child carers are being asked not to smoke in their cars.

Cars are the main target of this campaign that is known as the Fresh Start Wales Campaign and it aims at saving kids from second-hand smoke and the risks associated with it as the smoke inside cars gets confined to one place.

According to England’s departing communication tsar, there is a lot of struggle being made by parents who have kids with language and speech difficulties due to front-line cuts.

The number of kids needing help and cuts to NHS services and to council corresponded, according to Jean Gross.

She added that two years back the percentage of parents who needed help was about 18 and this time it has increased to 28.

The ministers have stated that the new bill will be ensuring that help was given better by GPs as they will be placed in such a way.

It has been stated that when it came to the price of PIP breast implants, they were about eight times cheaper than standard types.

The price of normal pair is about £1,000 but clinics paid about £130 a pair for these.

Women who wanted the implants were told that these implants were of a good quality and were charged £4,500 and £6,000 for one surgery, as charged for expensive implants, the implants were faulty but no one told women so.

According to Dr Vikram Vijh, the cost of these implants alone should have alarmed clinics but no one paid any heed to their quality seeing the cost.

According to a research, it is only for seven days that millions of New Year resolutions to quit smoking last.

There was a study conducted on about 6300 people and it states that about 10 per cent people out of two-thirds of Britain’s smokers, around six million people, who will make an attempt to leave smoking will be lighting up again within 24 hours.

Attempts were made about five times by 20 per cent of smokers and that too without any success.

Painkillers had cost over £440m last year for the NHS in England.

For giving painkillers and medication for flu like Lemsip and Anadin, thousands of pounds are spent by doctors.

Figures also reveal that the expense of per head of population on analgesics in England when it comes to analgesics is £8.80.

The figures varied in northern and southern areas as it was £15 in some northern areas and £3.26 per head in south.

Researchers have stated that greater weight loss can take place with a commercial weight loss club’s membership as compared to following NHS’ group counseling or individual counseling advice only.

In England, out of four people, one is classed obese and rising obesity rates are a key public health concern now. This rise also leads to various health problems like heart diseases, diabetes and more.

Weight-loss support and counseling is what guidelines advise doctors to provide overweight patients with, but the NHS does not have enough resources available.

A study has stated that about 4000 lives can be saved in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland every year if an English styled diet is consumed.

According to experts from Oxford University, more fruits and vegetables are consumed by people in England and their food contains less of salt and fat content and this leads to lesser heart problems and even certain cancers.

They added that the diet divide could be closed by a tax on fatty and salty foods and subsidies on fruit and vegetables.

According to the British Heart Foundation, authorities have to address inequalities in the nations.

UK's National Statistics have revealed that no one has been hit such hard by the VAT rise as is the poor. The tax has been raised from 17.5% to 20%, which has proved to be quite taxing for the marginal people.

There is drastic difference between the expenditure of poor and the rich, and this difference should be well understood by Chancellor George Osborne, who terms VAT to be a progressive tax. Poor person spends 9.8% of their disposable income on good, which has VAT, while elite class spends only 5.3% for the same.

From October 31 this year, the NHS Commissioning Board, NCB, went into operation in shadow form.

Over the next year, the board will operate as a special health authority and presently it is being headed by NHS Chief Executive Sir David Nicholson and chaired by Professor Malcolm Grant, a barrister and academic lawyer.

The task for this board will be to agree the method for establishing and authorising GP-led clinical commissioning groups, CCGs, and it will be working with the Department of Health.

Online streaming video service Netflix on Monday announced its plans to expand its service to Britain and Ireland early next year.

The move, which will put Netflix in direct competition with the likes of LoveFilm and YouTube, is going to be the Los Gatos, Calif.-based movie streaming service's second attempt after its first attempt failed seven years back.

Founded in 1997, Netflix also offers movies and TV shows on DVD via mail in the US, but there are no plans for a similar service in the Britain and Ireland.