Healthcare

Why are children still being diagnosed with personality disorders?

Young people are stigmatised and written-off from an early age when labelled with a personality disorder – campaigners want to end these childhood…

Apr 15 •

The Lead Editors

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Ellie Broughton

We won’t solve the social care crisis unless we start valuing caring professions

We are in the grip of a social care crisis – the impacts are felt by all of us. Nothing will change until carers feel valued and respected.

Apr 8 •

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I spent 18 years on benefits – the welfare system needs an overhaul

After two decades of being too ill to work, I know what it's like to rely on welfare. As the Government announces a crackdown on disability benefits…

Mar 26 •

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People with ME have been neglected by the government and society for too long

The government's new delivery plan for ME doesn't include funding. Now we're fighting back to demand fairer funding.

Mar 24 •

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Tiger-Lily Snowdon

Birth trauma: How maternity care is failing women

Plus: The damaging myth of the 'perfect mother' + The Lead in conversation: "Everyone in society has a part to play in raising children"

Mar 20 •

Woman diagnosed with HIV at 22 urges public to get tested

As Keir Starmer undertakes a test for HIV Testing Week - the second part of our special report into the UK's pledge to end the transmission of new cases…

Feb 11 •

Lingering stigma and barriers: UK at risk of missing goal to end HIV transmission by 2030

“The biggest barrier to testing will always be people who don’t think that they are at risk." The first part of a special report by Rachel Howarth into…

Feb 4 •

Labour's employment reforms could harm sick workers. Join our campaign for Safer Sick Pay now.

The government's proposed sick pay changes could leave millions of hard-working people out of pocket when they fall ill

Feb 1 •

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Exclusive: Mental health charities bend rules to try and help more patients

“We’re seeing people we probably shouldn’t be", one counsellor says, as charities resort to listing personality disorders as 'depression' and allowing…

Dec 12, 2024 •

It can't stop here: Assisted dying bill must be complemented by restoring Britain's care networks

It would be grotesque if much-needed assisted dying ends up a more efficient service in the NHS than early-life care, geriatric care, or the hospice…

Nov 30, 2024 •

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My newly immunosuppressed life

This time last year I started to feel a pain in my stomach. It felt sort of like trapped wind, but it just wouldn’t move, and it stayed for a few days.

Nov 28, 2024 •

Infected blood wiped out my family. Nothing less than criminal charges will do.

My father was given a transfusion infected with HIV—and within five years he, my mother and my baby sister were dead. Those responsible and those…

Oct 30, 2024

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