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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…
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Dimi Reider
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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.
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Leigh Jones
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…
I wanted help with intrusive thoughts. My GP told me to drink more water.
As we reveal mental health patients languishing in A&E for weeks on end, our editor recalls her own attempt to get urgent help. Plus: Behind the scenes…
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diyora shadijanova
NHS insiders slam Palantir contract
A glorified spreadsheet, a white elephant, or something more sinister?
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Katherine Hignett
Exclusive: 376 hours A&E waits for crisis-struck mental health patients
Adults and children in urgent need of mental health treatment face hundreds of hours waits in "environments that will make their symptoms worse," senior…
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Katherine Hignett
Black women have lowest IVF success rates in the NHS. Why?
NHS funding cuts are exacerbating inequalities in IVF outcomes - with Black women starting treatment later, experiencing lower success rates, and even…
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Natalie Morris
Shameful: Britain hauled before the UN for violating disabled people's rights
UK is the first nation to be found in violation of the Convention on the Rights of People With Disabilities. We went to the hearing to see what…
Urgent review at Blackpool Victoria Hospital adds to litany of issues
Blackpool Victoria Hospital has been at the centre of several scandals in recent years and many of these are still playing out
The 'noctor' will see you now: Unregulated physician associates putting lives at risk
Physician associates were brought in to ‘cut NHS waiting lists’, but doctors say they put patients at risk and increase workloads.
Hereditary conditions 'unknown': How the NHS is failing adoptees
Most people in the UK get warnings about family medical history. But if you’re adopted, you and your doctor are flying blind—and the NHS won’t refer you…
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Katharine Quarmby
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