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.
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.
The incoming and outgoing MPs that matter to the health service
New health secretary Matt Hancock, who took over the role from Jeremy Hunt this week, sets out his stall to the NHS in an exclusive editorial for HSJ.
Andy Cowper on what he calls the unutterably depressing saga of the Home Office blocking the visa applications of 100 doctors who have been recruited to come and work in the NHS
A survey into how restorative dentistry is paid for has found wide disparity in the funding of the service in the UK, which leads to variations in the service provided, note Ulpee Darbar and Ishpinder Kaur Toor
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