Tag Archives: public health

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Majority support ‘nanny state’ policies to improve Britain’s health outcomes

The Social Market Foundation has said that policymakers looking to improve the nation’s health should not be too worried about voter opposition, since the public is overwhelmingly in favour of...
Published: 14 September 2023
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Politicians must overcome ‘nanny state’ worries to improve Britain’s health

New research from the Social Market Foundation suggests that policies like higher taxes on cigarettes, alcohol and junk food, stricter licensing regulations to limit places to buy such products and...
Published: 27 July 2023
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‘Hire business leaders to run Department of Health’

Lord Warner, a health minister under Tony Blair, has written a pamphlet for the Social Market Foundation warning that without dramatic change in management and structure, the NHS will inevitably...
Published: 16 July 2023
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Labour must regulate unhealthy habits to achieve its health mission

Today Keir Starmer pledged to “improve healthy life expectancy for all” and to “halve the inequality gap between different regions of England”, but the SMF, a cross-party think tank, argued...
Published: 22 May 2023
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