The repeat prescriptions website, myrepeats.com, passed the half million items mark last month. The site, which allows patients to order repeat prescriptions from home, scooped the 2008 C+D Business Development of the Year Award for creators Paul Howie and Dave Roberts.

With data protection a major concern in the NHS, the news that hard drives containing confidential information were stolen from Brighton General Hospital in 2010 will not go down well. The hospital faces a fine of £375,000 after the  hard drives were sold on eBay and later recovered by police, the BBC reports.

And health secretary Andrew Lansley faces calls for decisive action over PIP breast implants after the Independent Healthcare Advisory Services said that women were more confused and anxious than ever.

Mr Lansley's response is to threaten to sue cosmetic surgeries that refuse to remove PIP implants for free, the Telegraph reports.

Rules preventing schools from keeping a spare asthma inhaler on the premises because they are prescription-only, are putting young lives at risk, the Metro reports. Asthma UK, called on the MHRA to change the rules after figures revealed that two thirds of youngsters have suffered an asthma attack in class.

The BBC reports that productivity in English hospitals needs to improve to prevent a fall in the standard of patient care as the NHS tries to save £20 billion by 2015.

A government report has said that hospital mergers do not benefit patients and are unlikely to be the most effective way to tackle financial problems, according to the Independent.

Meanwhile, heads of two royal colleges claim urgent action is needed over the issue of EU doctors' English language skills not being up to scratch. Professor Norman Williams and Sir Richard Thompson have said that NHS patients are at risk because of European laws that govern how overseas doctors' work in the UK, the Guardian reports.

For those of you who think you're kids spend too long on the computer, it turns out that being addicted to the internet is a clinical disorder, according to experts in China. The research into web addicts found they had brain changes similar to those hooked on drugs or alcohol, the BBC reports.

But don't worry about their physical fitness as researchers from Harvard Medical School have created a pill they claim provides all the same benefits of exercising, but without having to actually do any. Researchers believe that it could provide new treatment for a range of obesity related disorders, the Telegraph reports.

Welfare reforms that would have seen support to cancer patients and the disabled cut, were rejected by the House of Lords on the grounds that vulnerable people should not have to pay for banker's mistakes, the Telegraph writes.

Finally, a team led by the University of East Anglia has published findings that could eventually lead to drug treatment for those with the painful condition of flat feet and other common conditions affecting the tendons.