Children’s rights campaigners have slammed the Government for turning children into lifelong suspects after figures revealed more than 100,000 innocent young people are on the National DNA Database.

A new strategy that sets out how to promote good mental health and what skills are needed to do it must be provided by the government, according to the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health (SCMH).

Health minister Rosie Winterton has announced that the government was to provide an additional £1 million for 40 community engagement projects.

The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency has finalised a national framework agreement for computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (cCBT) software, widening the available options for treating people with depression and anxiety.

Drugs education schemes should start at primary school as part of an overhaul of Britain’s drugs strategy, Gordon Brown is to say. And more role models are needed to raise

A nurse has resigned after telling a heart attack patient that he had no right to complain about being left lying in urine for two hours on a trolley.

Almost half of nurses feel their sex lives are damaged by the emotional stress of their job, a poll suggests. Nursing Times magazine surveyed almost 2,000 nurses, and found 70% said they suffered from physical or mental health problems linked to work-related stress.

Extra workers drafted in to help hard-pressed midwives could actually be putting mothers and babies at more risk, a report has claimed. Maternity support staff are supposed to free up midwives’ time by helping with paperwork and non-clinical duties.

The NHS has underspent by half a billion pounds as a result of the aggressive cuts imposed by the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, a Guardian analysis of health authority figures has revealed.

Alcoholic drinks will carry new health warning labels by the end of 2008 under a voluntary agreement between ministers and the drinks industry. The labels will detail alcoholic units and