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Joint comment responding to Health Minister’s statement on brand advertising

Stuart Mitchell

The Minister for Health and Social Care Ashley Dalton has issued a written ministerial statement (WMS) reiterating the Government’s view that pure brand advertising is not in scope of the incoming advertising restrictions on Less Healthy Foods. The incoming restrictions are due to come into force on October 1, 2025 across online channels and a pre-9pm TV watershed. The Advertising Association, Channel 4, ISBA, ITV, Paramount, and STV have issued a joint statement in response: “We strongly welcome today’s statement from the Department for Health and Social Care, in the context of the urgent…

Cycling UK unveils brand refresh, cementing its vision for happier, healthier and greener communities

Stuart Mitchell

Cycling UK, the UK’s leading cycling charity, has today unveiled a refreshed brand to cement its charitable identity and help deliver its mission to enable and inspire people from all backgrounds to experience cycling’s joys and benefits. Developed in close partnership with the creative agency elvis, Cycling UK’s new brand is designed to underpin the charity’s commitment to creating happier, healthier and greener communities through cycling. Through its new look and feel, Cycling UK aims to show that more people cycling has far-reaching benefits for everyone, and not just those…

ILO launches Social Health Protection Toolkit on World Health Day

Stuart Mitchell

To mark World Health Day last month, the ILO unveiled a Toolkit on Social Health Protection, reinforcing its commitment to the right to health. The Toolkit offers resources to promote rights-based social health protection schemes embedded in inclusive, resilient, and sustainable health systems globally. This resource package aims to help countries accelerate progress toward universal health coverage and social protection—key targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. It provides policymakers, social partners, technical experts, and development partners with practical standards, tools, and policy guidance to build social health protection schemes aligned…

Consumers are Seeking More Protein for Health and Taste in 2025

Stuart Mitchell

People are eating more protein than ever before, with 61% of Americans increasing their protein intake in 2024 versus just 48% who did so in 2019. These are only a few of the major findings from Cargill’s 2025 Protein Profile, an annual trends report that provides a comprehensive look at trends in protein consumption for the year ahead. This year’s report also found that animal proteins like beef, chicken and eggs are the preferred protein sources for most consumers due to their taste, nutrition and versatility. The research – from…

More protection, less inequality: the urgent need for a gender perspective in occupational safety and health

Stuart Mitchell

Historically, medicine and the management of occupational safety and health (OSH) have been designed around a male reference model, which has led to the underestimation of workplace risks that affect women and men differently. A new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Ibero-American Social Security Organization (OISS) highlights how this androcentric perspective has failed to consider both the biological differences between men and women, and the broader gender-related aspects. The report, entitled Occupational Safety and Health with a Gender Perspective: Challenges and Advances in Ibero-America (available in…