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Dear Wes Streeting: Naming and shaming hospitals fixes nothing
Crumbling hospitals and rock-bottom morale can’t be mended by crude league tables and dogma of the past
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Disabled people are the largest minority in the world, but the government doesn’t care
If the government wanted to win over a large part of the electorate, surely we are the group to appeal to, not Reform voters?
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Hooked on Ozempic
Weight loss jabs really can help people to slim down. But that’s when the problems start
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Labour’s immigration plans will close my care home
A crackdown on visas for so-called lower-skilled migrant workers will have a devastating effect on an already creaking sector
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Lie of the Week: Farage on Reform’s NHS policy
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Isabel Oakeshott’s crash course in Israeli healthcare
Two hours in a Tel Aviv hospital was enough to convince the right wing journalist that Israel's insurance-based healthcare is better than the NHS. But is it?
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The government’s case for cuts
Wes Streeting has taken a scythe to the nation's health services. Will it work?
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Why have so many people got ADHD?
If you are neurodiverse, there’s a strong possibility that the health secretary doesn’t believe you
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How Barnier’s fall shows Farage is wrong about the NHS
Reform’s leader has been touting a French-style health system that is coming under increasing pressure
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The absurd hysteria over the assisted dying bill
Fears that we are on “a slippery slope" to widespread euthanasia are misplaced
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Lie of the week: Rupert Lowe on healthcare spending
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Money alone will not fix the NHS
It’s not only what you spend but how you spend it that matters
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The burden of assisted dying
Putting a cherished but broken NHS at the centre of a complex moral argument is fraught with danger
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Scotland’s drinking problem
Pressure is on John Swinney’s government as price rises are doing little to stop teenage drinking habits
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The philosophy behind Starmer's smoking ban
Many of us are hoping the prime minister's policy doesn't stray from pragmatic to heavy-handed
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Only radical improvement and structural change can save the NHS
The health secretary Wes Streeting has the daunting task of overhauling the NHS amid increasing financial strain
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Britain’s mental health crisis is real – but Sunak doesn’t care
The prime minister's 'sicknote culture' wrongly blames the mentally ill for the country's economic problems
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Another reminder of how the Tories have failed the NHS
Despite the pandemic and record waiting lists, health spending has gone up less than was promised
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Britain is better with the NHS
Much of the criticism the NHS receives is given by the ministers who helped create its problems
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Can we justify paternalism?
For children and vulnerable adults, some level of state-enforced restriction can be benign
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In search of Englishness
As Keir Starmer tries to redefine what it means to be English, Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears ask what really lies behind our patriotic political myths
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Visas for social care workers may be exacerbating exploitation in the sector
Even with planned changes to the sponsorship rules, the risk of exploitation among care workers will remain
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Sunak’s sicknote moral mission is nothing of the sort
Targeting ill and disabled people is a desperate move from the prime minister. Sick, you might say
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Sunak’s misleading sick note numbers
The PM implied that 1.35 million were off work because of depression or anxiety. That’s not true
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Sorry Sunak, Britain still trusts the NHS
Despite sky-high waiting times, trust in the NHS remains high. The same cannot be said for the Tories
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Everyday philosophy: Our assisted dying laws are inhumane
In many other countries in Europe, assisted dying is already legal and the UK should follow suit
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Gids is a scandal on a par with the Post Office. So where does Starmer stand?
An aspiring Labour government cannot avoid the questions raised in the Cass review
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In Nye, British theatre goes beyond history
This production at the National Theatre gives Nye Bevan the Churchill treatment
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Bridging the UK’s gender pain gap
In Britain, women with a health condition can sit in medical purgatory awaiting a diagnosis for up to three years. I’m one of them
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ADHD enhanced my life, does science now agree?
A new study has found the disorder may be advantageous. After all, society would be far duller without us
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13 years of Tory rule has left Britain blue
Keir Starmer will have to focus on Britons’ quality of life if he wants the country to start healing
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I’ve seen the NHS crisis close-up. Here’s how Labour can fix it
Rishi Sunak has little incentive to fix the NHS’s problems