The Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, is very keen on measuring healthcare by its outcomes, and there’s no more unambiguous outcome than dying.
 

The latest figures from the OECD on graduation rates across the developed world show that, relatively, the UK’s position is deteriorating.
 

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