Headlines asserting that hospital admissions attributable to alcohol have doubled since 2004 to over a million a year could soon be just a nasty memory.

The King’s Fund has stepped in to help preserve a time series of public attitudes to health and the NHS which had been threatened by the Department of Health pulling the plug.<

Andrew Lansley’s appearance before the Health Select Committee on December 12 produced an argument fit for the fourth form.

“A woman is raped every ten minutes” says a press release from the Department of Health today.
 

The Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, is very keen on measuring healthcare by its outcomes, and there’s no more unambiguous outcome than dying.
 

A study funded by the Department of Health shows that raising the age at which teenagers can buy cigarettes from 16 to 18 had a dramatic effect on smoking prevalence in the under-18s.

Why are poorer people unhealthier? A commonsense response would be because they behave more unhealthily.

More than one in five boys and one in seven girls have difficulty in learning to talk, according to research released last week by Jean Gross, England’s “Communications Champion&r

Seven years ago, after strong media, clinical and patient pressure, the Government negotiated a “risk-sharing” deal over access to drugs to treat multiple sclerosis.

More than 90 per cent of women are denied choice in where they give birth, charges the National Childbirth Trust in a new report.