The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a consultation on its new strategy: The Health and Safety of Great Britain, Be Part of the Solution.  The strategy, which is resetting the direction for health and safety, sets out a number of goals to be achieved: These include HSE and Local...

THE Conservatives last night called for updates on the Lockerbie bomber's medical condition to be made public on the eve of the three-month anniversary of his release.

The Conservatives proposed this week to abolish income tax on savings paid by basic-rate tax payers. They aim to fund this through restrictions on public spending amounting to cuts of some £5.4 billion. Although the Tories say they will match Labour’s spending on health and schools, we doubt...

A £150m two-year investment in a "dementia strategy" has been launched by Alan Johnson, the health secretary, amid fears that much tighter public spending in the wake of the recession will cramp its development

THE Scottish Conservatives have pledged to boost health visiting services in Scotland to give children the best start in life.

The proposals, reported today, to make MMR jabs compulsory show how worried some public health professionals are about the number of young children who are not being given the injections. As the BBC has reported, documents we received under freedom of information revealed how the London Strategic Health Authority was so concerned that it raised the possibility of compulsory vaccination with the De...

The Tories today rolled out the first section of their manifesto this morning, the chapter on health. The reason the Tories started with their plans for the NHS, as they did when setting out their priorities for government last autumn, is quite simple: the leadership thinks that every time Cameron talks about health the party goes up in the polls. Certainly, one of the achievements of Cameron̵...

Last week the Conservatives launched a new line of attack on the public sector. Phillip Hammond, the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, told Policy Exchange that the public sector was inefficient. But mainly this assertion doesn't stand up because it hints that the Tories would somehow correct the problem without risk of hurting unquantifiable standards in the services provided.

Labour Councillors have slammed Westminster Conservatives for spending over £231,000 on private health insurance for 100 senior managers at the Council. Last year the private health insurance bill for Council staff was over £228,000. Labour say that spending over £230,000 on private health insurance for Council staff is the wrong use of public money at a time when nearly 400 Coun...

The Conservatives plan to scrap a scheme designed to make patient records available electronically, the opposition health spokesman revealed after publishing a review of the £12bn programme