Sam Blanchard

Health Correspondent at The Sun – [email protected]

[Sam Blanchard @samblanchard9]

She's right it's a disaster

[Jennifer Arcuri @Jenniferarcuri]

The UK is not ok. 🇬🇧

[Sam Blanchard @samblanchard9]

Love it when a government acronym comes together

[Medical Journalists' Association @mjauk]

Dad, 55, is first of thousands to get personalised cancer vaccines in life-saving NHS breakthrough - from @samblanchard9

https://t.co/zcD30cXdey

[Institute of Economic Affairs @iealondon]

"Their real purpose is to portray overweight and obese people as passive victims of something they can’t do anything about. It is not helpful."

📰 @cjsnowdon quoted in @TheSun on NHS plans to adopt the phrase ‘living with obesity’ 👇

https://t.co/GPJ80qu0jW.

[Medical Journalists' Association @mjauk]

Millions could 'slash heart disease risk' on weight-loss jabs like Wegovy - in 'biggest breakthrough since statins' - from @samblanchard9

https://t.co/j9A1wLj2Cf

[Sam Blanchard @samblanchard9]

Inspiring change of scenery chatting to Glenn Hoddle at Wembley this week with @TheBHF @SkyBet... plus a CPR lesson to kick off my TV career
https://t.co/DD1EJPV3Oa

[The Sun @TheSun]

On tomorrow's front page: Kate Middleton’s brave cancer video ‘will save lives’ after it inspired hundreds of thousands of Brits to get checked
https://t.co/8TPWbtUsOa

[Joe Davies @TheJoe_Davies]

Exclusive - The co-chair of the BMA's Junior Doctor's Committee cannot strike this weekend because he is no longer a junior doctor

https://t.co/1TxOM6RCKJ

[The Sun @TheSun]

Anti-smoking drug cytisine ‘that doubles your chances of quitting’ will be available on the NHS in just days
https://t.co/nSpb19kZ0A
https://t.co/nSpb19kZ0A

[Sam Blanchard @samblanchard9]

Out of 134,000 people sent to NHS slimming classes only 6,590 (5%) made it to the six-month follow up having lost any weight

https://t.co/SRh1Ra7aia
@Obesitysoc

[Medical Journalists' Association @mjauk]

NHS faces worst winter in memory due to junior doctors’ strikes starting today, hospital bosses warn - from @samblanchard9

https://t.co/9SH1hwSUg3

[Sam Blanchard @samblanchard9]

Over 800,000 more people will be eligible for NHS bowel cancer screening as the starting age lowers to 54

Lynn Dunne @BowelResearch: “This will save lives now that disease is increasing in the under-60s.”

https://t.co/9RHicqWZe7

[British Meat Processors Association @BMPA_INFO]

The Sun's Health Reporter @samblanchard9 reviews the UN's latest report into meat eating & climate change.
Lucas Daglish says it's “encouraging for people who don’t want to take extreme measures and give up the health benefits and enjoyment of eating meat”
https://t.co/eUE3RxqaFV

[Sam Blanchard @samblanchard9]

Love this – "A hearse stopped and asked him if he wanted a lift and he climbed in the back with the coffin."

Dickens' Scrooge 'inspired by Gloucester banker Jemmy'
https://t.co/C0g5isTr5s

[Sam Blanchard @samblanchard9]

Boris was as enthusiastic about the second Covid wave as the rest of us, then...

"Maybe we are licked as a species... We are too shit to get our act together" – from Patrick Vallance's diary

[Sam Blanchard @samblanchard9]

England diagnosed more bowel cancers than lung cancers in 2021, for the first time on record - making it the third most common type

https://t.co/NZa0EL0KmO

[Sam Blanchard @samblanchard9]

The UK Health Security Agency has reached out to vaccine suppliers about stockpiling flu jabs in case of a human bird flu pandemic

https://t.co/fSiG8yYw9e

[Sam Blanchard @samblanchard9]

Enjoyed seeing behind the scenes at the community diagnostic centre in Barnsley.
If anyone needs help finding their hepatic vein, give me a call...

[Sam Blanchard @samblanchard9]

The NHS in England is catching record numbers of cancers in the early, more treatable stages

https://t.co/ecfXMVPxLr

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

Good news if true -> UK to stand up to the WHO on vaping.

Includes a quote from yours truly.
https://t.co/qK5LTl7CPf