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Best of Brakfast Episode 174 Yana Bolder
The NHS says every maternity service in England must improve standards to reduce deaths during or after pregnancy.
Numbers of women dying in pregnancy or soon after birth are rising. Data shows 252 maternal deaths between 2022 and 2024, 20 percent higher than 2009 to 2011, equal to 12.8 per 100,000 births. Chief midwife Kate Brintworth says care is not where it should be.
The number of cancer cases in the UK has hit a record high. More than 403,000 people are diagnosed each year, about one every 80 seconds.
Cancer Research UK says rates are up 15 percent since the early 1990s, with factors including obesity. Michelle Mitchell says diagnoses are higher than ever, although survival has doubled since the 1970s, progress has slowed recently.
Artificial intelligence is flattening the jobs market for young people, and governments should consider scrapping National Insurance to boost hiring, says former prime minister Rishi Sunak.
Now advising Anthropic and Microsoft, he supports AI but accepts graduates worry about entry level roles. He says hiring of young people is flattening because of the technology, but action can be taken.
How two rival charts shaped what Britain heard on the radio If you grew up listening to music radio in the 1980s, you probably remember that the “official” chart wasn’t the only one in town. On one side you had the chart broadcast by BBC Radio 1, which reflected the UK’s official sales rankings. On the other, many independent commercial stations played the Network Chart, which offered a slightly different […]
