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Denis Campbell

Denis Campbell is health policy editor for the Guardian and the Observer. He has written about the NHS, public health and medicine since 2007 and shares health-writing duties with Andrew Gregory, the health editor

May 2025

  • A cataract operation

    Profits from NHS England eye care outsourcing same as 100 PFI contracts, research finds

    CHPI thinktank found five firms made an ‘eye-watering’ £169m in 2023-24, as calls for profit cap grow
  • A radiologist shows a nodule on a lung scan of a smoker

    NHS in England urged to become ‘early intervention service’ on cancer

    Exclusive: Too many people at risk of becoming ‘martyrs’ by not getting symptoms checked as they do not want to burden health service, report warns
  • Woman filing paper medical records onto a shelf

    One in four patients in England find errors in medical records, watchdog says

    Healthwatch England says mistakes mean some patients are refused care or given drugs they do not need

April 2025

  • A selection of unhealthy products

    Ultra-processed food increases risk of early death, international study finds

  • A child covering their face with the hands

    Being shouted at by parents can alter child’s brain, experts tell UK MPs

  • Pregnant black woman sitting on bed holding ultrasound image of baby

    NHS in England failing to record ethnicity of those who sue over maternity care

  • A doctor on a hospital ward

    NHS staff fatigue poses ‘significant’ threat to patient safety, watchdog warns

  • Patient satisfaction with GP services in England has collapsed, research finds

  • GPs in England will be able to claim £20 per new patient for seeking specialist advice

  • British hospitals introduce treatment for heart failure that cuts deaths by 62%

  • Health workers sent door to door in deprived areas to detect illnesses

  • Hospitals in England could shed 100,000 jobs in response to cost-cutting orders

  • ‘Generational shift’: UK gyms busier than ever as gen Zers ditch pub for pilates

  • Patient satisfaction with NHS has hit record low of 21%, survey finds

March 2025

  • A man in a home office standing with his hands to his lower back

    New drug for lower back pain could be ‘a gamechanger’

  • Girl stacking coins

    Decline of cash credited for drop in NHS surgery for children swallowing objects

  • A cyclist and a bus outside the Royal Free hospital in London.

    London maternity unit to shut in response to steep fall in birth rate

  • Mother holding her newborn baby looking tired and resting her head on her hand

    Exercise and screen time advice for new mothers angers parenting groups

  • Three-quarters of UK fertility patients using unproven add-on treatments

  • Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says

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