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BBC News - Health

• NHS prescription charges in England to be frozen
  Not raising the fees for the first time in 12 years puts money back in people's pockets, ministers say.
• NHS's centralised nature is ripe for reforming, think tank says
  The Policy Exchange think tank wants local NHS to have more power and questions rise in national managers.
• University of Leeds study to examine impact of endurance sport on heart health
  The University of Leeds project will see heart monitors fitted under the skin of more than 100 men.
• Dame Deborah James says Prince William's visit will be a 'special memory'
  The cancer campaigner says the prince went "above and beyond" in visiting her to confer her damehood.
• North Korea: More than a million Covid cases feared
  The military has been ordered to intervene as a wave of Covid cases sweeps the unvaccinated country.