A new initiative by public health minister Gillian Merron aims to encourage families to walk their kids to school at least once a week as a way of becoming more active.
It is a pity the launch was due the week beginning 5 January, as most of the country was covered in snow, hundreds of schools were shut and a national grit shortage rendered pavements perilously icy to walk across. In an equally disappointing blow to public services, the launch was cancelled.
Health minister Gillian Merron has declared many patients have a poor experience of NHS care as a result of a “culture that has ignored the voice of staff [and] of patients and families for too long”.
What people are saying about departing health ministers Ann Keen, Gillian Merron, Mike O’Brien and Phil Hope
Health minister Gillian Merron has lost her Lincoln seat to the Conservatives.
Amidst the state of permanent revolution which has afflicted the NHS in the 21st century, there has been one constant: the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
As Andrew Lansley’s policy adviser I learned the pain of legislating to rewire the NHS — the government should avoid it, says Bill Morgan.
The government’s abandonment of its stricture against a top-down reorganisation would be breathtaking if it was not so tragic.
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