Drivers applying for new licences from July will have to respond to a question about organ donation, as the government bids to increase donor numbers.

The Birmingham-based doctor responsible for the care of soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq is knighted in the New Year Honours.

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Figures show 39 people in the UK have now died with flu-like illnesses this winter.

The National clinical director for transplantation Chris Rudge says including a compulsory question about organ donation on driving licence applications will increase donor numbers.

UK Interim Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies says the flu campaign is being started at the "right time"

Professor Keith Porter, from the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in Birmingham has spoken of his pride at receiving a knighthood.

The spiralling cost of caring for dementia patients is to be the subject of a major inquiry by MPs and peers.