To the new health secretary, Andrew Lansley, target is a dirty word. He prefers outcome measures – actual results that show treatments are working.

No sooner are they in power than the Tories give us all a fright over law and order.
 

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is not getting away unchallenged with his decision to link benefits and pensions to a different inflation measure, mentioned

There’s going to be a baby boom next month, according to many newspapers – the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the Daily Telegraph.

Sex sells papers, so today’s made hay with new figures for sexually-transmitted diseases. “Drunk ladettes fuel a boom in STIs” was the Daily Express headline.

The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is claiming that a dirty tricks campaign lay behind the charges of rape and sexual assault laid against him by two Swedish women last week.

A study funded by the Department of Health shows that raising the age at which teenagers can buy cigarettes from 16 to 18 had a dramatic effect on smoking prevalence in the under-18s.

The European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued a

Workshy scroungers have cost the taxpayer £28 billion over the past decade, the Daily Express splashed  on Monday.

The Scottish Government has flatly rejected any change in pre-release access to statistics, describing the arguments of the UK Statistics Authority in favour of such a change as specious.