Department of Health

Children will be shielded from ads for cakes, soft drinks and sweets from next year under a childhood obesity crackdown.A ban on junk food advertising will come into force in October 2024, with paid-for online ads for unhealthy foods…

The official who led the Department of Health during the pandemic has been appointed as the new head of the civil service.Keir Starmer named Sir Chris Wormald as the new Whitehall chief and tasked him with "nothing less than the complete…

Families whose loved ones died after suffering poor NHS care during the pandemic are angry at not being able to give evidence on how the failings impacted their lives. Around 200 have written letters to chair Baroness Hallett to object that…

In July, at a bitcoin conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump pledged to fire Gensler if reelected, drawing perhaps the most raucous applause of the night. “I will appoint an SEC chair who will build the future, not block the future,”…

Seeking out witches, psychics, mediums, or other purveyors of magic or mysticism during times of change or uncertainty has been happening for centuries. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Yelp noted a 74 percent increase in Americans searching…

Wes Streeting has defended a new NHS reform plan to sack failing bosses and “name and shame” struggling hospitals. The Health Secretary unveiled his plan to “manage out” struggling managers from the NHS if they cannot improve patient care…

Failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve patient care, the Health Secretary will announce. Wes Streeting will set out a reform plan on Wednesday, telling NHS leaders at a…

Health Secretary Victoria Atkins spends her last hours in the job not doing it. She should have been trying to solve the eleventh hospital doctors’ strike that started yesterday. Instead, she flitted round the “spin room” of a TV studio in…

Getting rid of useless medical gear ordered during the pandemic is costing us £107,500 a day.Taxpayers face a £29million bill over nine months to destroy duff personal protective equipment. The cash could pay for 2,678 heart bypasses or…

Ken Clarke is facing calls to be stripped of his peerage over how he responded to the infected blood scandal as Margaret Thatcher’s Health Secretary.The Tory was criticised by inquiry chairman Sir Brian Langstaff for claiming in 1983 there…