Hospitals are all part of London-based trusts hit by cancer care delays after Russian cyber-attack

Junior doctors have been granted permission to work at some hospitals during a looming strike in order to prevent potentially dangerous delays to cancer care, the British Medical Association has said.

The six hospitals where some junior doctors will be allowed to work during the industrial action are all part of the NHS trusts Lewisham and Greenwich, Guy’s and St Thomas’, and King’s College hospital, which are experiencing delays due to a Russian cyber-attack that has resulted in cancer surgeries having to be postponed.

Health expert cautions against normalisation of tobacco deaths 70 years since direct link between smoking and cancer uncovered

Public health initiatives on smoking in the UK are comparable in scale with the interventions made regarding clean water and sanitation in the 19th century, a leading expert has said.

Sir Richard Peto, emeritus professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at the University of Oxford, worked alongside the scientist Richard Doll, who uncovered a direct link between smoking and cancer 70 years ago on Wednesday.