Health jobs news: Will under-18s be banned from sunbeds?-Health care recruitment News 13 Jan 2010

People in health jobs are being encouraged to publicise the risk of sunbeds as the secretary of state for health calls for under-18s to be banned from tanning salons.

Andy Burnham said scientific evidence had made it clear that use of the beds increased one's risk of getting skin cancer and therefore younger people needed to be stopped from using them.

"It is far too easy for young people to use sunbeds and I am determined to take action to protect them," he added.

The government is backing a private member's bill to this effect, to be introduced by member of parliament Julie Morgan, after a study undertaken by Cancer Research UK showed that six per cent of young people aged 11 to 17 admitted to having used sunbeds.

In Liverpool and Sunderland alone, the numbers of those who had used the salons exceeded the numbers of those combined in four other major areas.

According to Cancer Research UK's Sunsmart, using a tanning bed once a month or more can increase one's risk of contracting skin cancer by over half.

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