Doctors and nurses who deal with the consequences of Britain's drinking say the government's public health campaigns are not working and want price rises instead. A survey by two royal colleges published today asked gastroenterologists, hepatologists, acute physicians and nurses for their opinion of government initiatives on alcohol-related harm. Most - 84% - felt public health campaigns...

The government announces funding for new public health campaigns, despite a previous freeze on all marketing and advertising.

Health officials have spent £30 million on advertising campaigns that will include networking on Twitter and Facebook prompting criticism that the money could be better used in frontline services.

Some £4bn of NHS money is to be ring fenced for public health with a good chunk of it handed over to English local authorities to run health prevention and promotion programmes

Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, has today launched Labour's Health Manifesto, Your Personal NHS Guarantee. Labour outlines our plan for a better NHS. An NHS that is on the side of the patient, not the system. Today, while Labour campaigns on public services, the Tory risk on public services is becoming more and more clear – removing guarantees in the NHS, ch...

Celebrities have been paid almost £90000 by the Government to front public health campaigns it has emerged.

Health services across Europe will come under increasing pressure during the financial crisis, according to European Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, who is urging health ministers not to slash public spending on health care.

Yesterday the Guardian revealed the sheer magnitude of the sums of money spent by Lobbyists on both sides in the great healthcare debate in the US: Lobbyists representing the commercial interests of those who are opposed to the introduction of public health insurance have spent a grand total of $380 million on advertising campaigns, lobbying and

THE Scottish Government is to spend £1.45 million on research into links between the environment and public health, it emerged yesterday.

ESSAY: Recent thinking on health policy has been driven by two myths: that bad health is caused by bad habits, and that government can promote good health by changing our behaviour.