public health
NHS assessment of Lansley’s plan’s risk makes for sober reading
Alex Hern details the concerning information to be found in NHS London’s assessment of the risk imposed by the government’s top-down reorganisation of the NHS.
The best preventative medicine in the world can’t undo the damage of Osborne’s austerity
Dr Tristan Learoyd explains why the coalition's focus on preventative medicine is a smokescreen for cuts, and is doomed to inefficacy, because of the cuts.
Happy smoking ban day everybody! – don’t believe big tobacco’s corporate spin
Four years on, the smoking ban is popular and defintive claims that it has led to more pubs shutting are unsubstantiated.
Why the government’s proposals on public health are dead on arrival
Shadow public health minister Diane Abbott writes exclusively for Left Foot Forward on the government's proposals on public health.