Health secretary Andrew Lanlsey has the full support of David Cameron despite ongoing opposition to the controversial health reforms, the BBC reports.

And the NHS has defended its actions after teenage girls as young as 13 were fitted with contraceptive implants at school without their parent's knowledge, the Telegraph reports.

The ABPI has appointed Luther Pendragon to provide public affairs advice to its senior team. Luther Pendragon will devise the organisation's long-term strategy to cope with controversial NHS reforms.

Meanwhile, an Australian study has found that drinking soft drinks can increase the risk of developing asthma or a chronic breathing condition, the Guardian reports.

About 1,000 private patients with PIP breast implants have contacted the NHS in England after the health service announced it would remove PIP implants from private patients but would not replace them.

Health regulators have said they have to rely on plastic surgeons and clinics to inform women who were given faulty PIP breast implants because a central register was shut down five years ago, the Telegraph reports.

MPs have criticised England's fragmented care system, saying that elderly people are passed between services and that there needs to be joined-up delivery of care, health and housing, the BBC reports.

The Independent reports that pregnant women who have diabetes are almost four times more likely to have a baby with a birth defect, according to research.

Finally, the House of Lords has been urged to support a move that would see NHS hospitals carrying out more private sector work, the BBC reports.