Newspaper headlines: 'Enough for second Harry book' and 'train more doctors'

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By BBC News
Staff

The Times leads on the chief executive of NHS England. In an interview, Amanda Pritchard says there is an over-reliance on foreign staff, and that medical school places are needed for British students. The paper says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is known to favour the expansion of training places for doctors, nurses and therapists.

In its Scottish edition, the Times suggests that Nicola Sturgeon is preparing to water down her plan to make the next general election a de-facto independence referendum. The paper claims to have seen a document to be presented to the SNP national executive committee outlining how votes for the party in an election would be treated merely as "support for a second referendum" and not as backing for separation.

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The chief executive of NHS England has called for a big increase in the training of homegrown doctors and nurses

The main story in the Guardian is a report that hormone replacement therapy may help prevent Alzheimer's disease in thousands of women at risk of developing it. The paper says two teams of researchers from the Universities of East Anglia and Edinburgh found what they called the "potential" significance of HRT in preventing the condition in women carrying a particular gene. They said the findings were "really important", although they stressed they couldn't say for sure the therapy cut the risk. The Daily Express has the same story. It reports that women with the APOE4 gene had better brain function if they had previously taken HRT.

The Financial Times leads on what it calls the "upbeat" November economic data. It says the GDP figures, released on Friday, defied expectations and are likely to increase pressure on the Bank of England to raise interest rates. But it also quotes an economist at the consulting firm RSM UK, who said the recession was "delayed not cancelled" because consumer spending would falter as the squeeze on real-term incomes bit.

The Daily Mail focuses on this week's death of a dogwalker in Surrey. It says the attack began when one of the woman's seven dogs bit a stranger. The animal then turned on her when she tried to intervene - and the others joined in.

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Prince Harry tells the Telegraph he has held back on further disclosures about the Royal Family

"Lisa Marie died of broken heart" is the Daily Mirror's headline. The paper suggests that Elvis's only child had never been able to recover from the suicide of her son Benjamin when he was 27. It says she had been living in the "unrelenting grip" of grief ever since.

The Daily Telegraph devotes much of its front page to an interview with Prince Harry, in which he says he has enough material for another book. He tells the paper he held back disclosures concerning the King and the Prince of Wales because they would never forgive him if they were made public. He also says he felt a responsibility to "reform" the monarchy for the sake of his brother's three children - at least one of whom, he said, would end up a "spare" like him.