Please find below a selection of the most relevant and interesting news stories of the past week. Including:
- Better commissioning is needed to deal with combined effects of physical and mental illnesses
- Cigarette vending machines banned in England
- Exclusive: government funding changes ‘will transfer £700m from poor to rich areas’
- Exposure to statins and risk of common cancers: a series of nested case-control studies
- Healthcare accreditation systems: further perspectives on performance measures
- Monitor threatens collective punishment for Greater Manchester over cancer
- Onus is on doctors to encourage patients to have the flu jab
- Size restrictions on commissioning groups are eroding GPs’ engagement
