public health Articles

NHS crisis, what NHS crisis? Take your pick. Accident and emergency, under-staffing, or any other local or national health crisis you can think of. In the next five years we can expect to lurch from one crisis to another. It is vital we understand their underlying...

Whenever a politician utters the words ‘public health’ at the start of the day, you can guarantee that by the end of it 'nanny state' will be the words instead on everyone’s lips. Launching Labour’s public health offer this week, Andy Burnham outlined that challenge...

You may be forgiven, given recent media focus, for thinking that most healthcare takes place in hospitals. Or that it is the NHS that makes the greatest difference to our health. In reality the most significant impacts are made through really good quality public...

Yesterday’s shocking news that the rate of prediabetes has trebled in the last eight years, and that a third of us now have prediabetes and are at high risk of developing full blown Type 2 diabetes, should act as a wake-up call for all of us. There are now 3.8 million...