Labour MP and black maternal health advocate Bell Ribeiro-Addy has told PoliticsHome “the government is very clearly ignoring the factors of race" after a new report showed black women are four times more likely to die in childbirth than their white peers. 

In the midst of a crisis facing our health service, with record waits for operations, long delays in A&E and strikes not seen in generations, it could be easy for public health interventions to take a back seat. But the difference interventions such as the Soft Drinks Industry Levy can make are significant.

The NHS is one of our nation’s proudest achievements and this year marks the service reaching its 75th birthday.

In the second of a series of articles following the publication of Hologic’s report into Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, ‘The right patients, the right setting, the right clinicians’, Sarah Smith reflects on how we can better give women the space to talk about, and receive treatment for, challenging menstrual health conditions.

Arts-in-nature practice improves mental health and connection with nature.

An FOI investigation by The House has uncovered a postcode lottery in child and adolescent mental health care, with some desperate young people waiting up to four years for help.

General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Pat Cullen has said nursing strikes could last until Christmas after members rejected a pay deal from the government.

Having worked as a nurse for over 20 years, mental health minister Maria Caulfield has “a foot in both camps”. She speaks to Sophie Church about how the government is increasingly taking a holistic approach to mental health, and sheds light on her spat with a certain Countdown presenter…

Commenting on the Budget, Paul Fakley, Engagement Director at British Safety Council, said:

From being a talented musician to fighting to save children from the horrors of genocide, Dr Rosena Allin-Khan has led many lives. Now shadow mental health minister, she talks to Zoe Crowther about her latest mission: to end the crisis facing mental health services in the NHS. Photography by Baldo Sciacca

Nurses in England have rejected the government’s offer of a pay rise and will go back out on strike later this month, it has been announced.

Body weight, inactivity, and social deprivation amongst the contributing factors.

Young people are waiting up to four years for critical help as waiting lists spiral out of control, as revealed by an exclusive investigation by The House magazine.

Asylum seekers are at risk of missing out on essential healthcare due to limited access to digital tools and the internet, according to a new charity report.

One family told me their mum had only been waiting six hours on the floor for an ambulance. Only six hours. For a moment I thought this was a positive outcome. A patient in their 80s, lying on a cold hard floor for the equivalent of three quarters of my shift and I felt this was good patient care.

The announcement that £500m of promised funding to develop the social care workforce has been halved, is deeply concerning. This risks worsening the NHS crisis as well as social care provision.

With a new survey revealing that half of UK adults (51%) are finding it harder to make healthy food choices amid spiralling costs, Slimming World outlines how it is helping people through the challenging circumstances.

Funding for prevention should reflect the scale of the problem.

Health is a critical factor in driving social and economic wellbeing and has a vital role to play as we work to help the UK ’level up’. Much current policy focuses on how government and the NHS can reduce health inequity. But what is the role that UK business should be playing?

As London Marathon’s longest continual sponsor, Lucozade Sport is proud to be sponsoring the TCS London Marathon yet again as the brand’s owner, Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I (SBF GB&I) calls for Government to further promote sport participation and physical activity in deprived communities.

BGC members would welcome a mandatory levy to fund Research, Education and Treatment (RET) services to tackle gambling related harm, if it is independent and tiered to protect land-based operators.

The government has removed billions of items of PPE it bought during the pandemic from its stocks, with more than one billion pieces set to be incinerated.