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New animated series for kids, known as Activate, will get more children across the country moving more and encouraging a healthier lifestyle.
New reforms to the dental contract will prioritise those with urgent and complex needs, with new measures for those with extreme tooth decay and gum disease.
Dr Camilla Kingdon has been appointed by the Secretary of State to chair an independent review of children's hearing services.
New entitlement will give thousands of eligible new parents each year with children in neonatal care a right to additional leave and pay.
Programme will reach up to 600,000 children in most deprived areas.
Landmark study to investigate long-term health effects of vaping on young people's health and wellbeing, alongside wider influences on adolescent health.
Nearly 700,000 women across the country will take part in a world-leading trial to test how AI tools can be used to catch breast cancer cases earlier.
Local communities to receive funding for family and school nurses, sexual health clinics and other public health services.
The Health and Social Care Secretary made a statement to the House of Commons on puberty-suppressing hormones.
Existing emergency measures banning the sale and supply of puberty-suppressing hormones will be made indefinite, following official advice from medical experts.
Junk food ads to be banned from October 2025 with final details unveiled today.
Votes on the world-leading Tobacco and Vapes Bill will move the UK one step closer to becoming smoke-free.
The continuation of the ban applies to the sale or supply of these drugs to under 18s not already taking them.
Temporary ban on prescription and supply of puberty blockers extended.
A national respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine programme protecting infants and elderly people will save lives in the UK.
New regulations restrict the prescribing and supply of puberty-suppressing hormones to children and young people under 18.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Statement to Parliament from Health Minister, Andrea Leadsom, at the second reading of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
Professor Sir Chris Whitty writes for The Guardian on smoking addiction and MPs' historic opportunity to vote on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
MPs to vote on legislation to create first smokefree generation, protecting young people turning 15 this year or younger from harms of smoking.
As delivered by Rt Hon Victoria Atkins MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
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