内容摘要：Patients will also be able to book planned appointments to be seen at the urgent treatment centres via NHS 111, instead of waiting up to two hours to be seen.

Patients will also be able to book planned appointments to be seen at the urgent treatment centres via NHS 111, instead of waiting up to two hours to be seen.

, she added that the "sinister" policy was "an attack on women's right to choose how many children they have".Save the Children, a charity, has estimated that scrapping the cap would take half a million children out of relative poverty.

It argues that government plans for an anti-poverty strategy will not be "credible" unless the cap is dropped at the autumn Budget.The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tankthat removing it would eventually cost the government £3.4bn a year, roughly 3% of the total budget for working-age benefits.

A deaf and blind university student who completed the London Marathon has said she is "ready for her next challenge" as she prepares to climb Mount Everest.Karolina Pakenaite, 28, from Merseyside, crossed the finish line with a running time of five hours, 18 minutes and 20 seconds.

The PhD student was diagnosed with Usher syndrome at the age of 19, which means she is slowly becoming increasingly deaf and blind.

Ms Pakenaite said she was trying to make as many memories as possible as she did not know how long it would be until her hearing and vision disappear completely.Exploring the reasons behind the rise, which has "accelerated" since the pandemic, researchers said the UK was an outlier compared to other countries, none of which have seen the same level of post-pandemic increases in health-related benefit claims.

More than half of the rise in 16 to 64-year-olds claiming disability benefits since the pandemic is for claims relating to mental health or behavioural conditions, according to aResearchers found particularly fast growth in new disability benefit claims for learning disability and autism spectrum claims.

There was also evidence of increasing levels of severe mental health problems.There is a heightened rate of mortality among working age people, due to "deaths of despair"- either by suicide, alcohol or drug misuse - and such deaths are much more likely if someone has a mental health illness.