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  • Staff and an elderly patient in a wheelchair on an NHS hospital ward

    More than 1m older people in England waited over 12 hours in A&E last year

  • A prescription paper bag held by a hand with various drugs in the background

    Pharmacists face daily inappropriate demands for antibiotics, survey finds

    National Pharmacy Association says some patients hoard them for holidays despite threat posed by antimicrobial resistance
  • Campaigners on the street, one holding Save Winter Fuel placard

    No 10 rethinking winter fuel payment cut after Labour slump in local elections

    Exclusive: government fears further electoral losses from unpopular policy as well as from planned £5bn of benefits cuts
  • A volunteers holds a donations bucket with the message: 'We are Macmillan Cancer Support'

    Macmillan accused of ‘betrayal’ over plan to axe cancer benefits advice service

  • MP Kim Leadbeater

    Assisted dying bill to include protection for NHS staff not wishing to take part

  • Fred Reid

    Fred Reid obituary

  • Linda Geddes stood in front of a pile of food

    Online tests revealed I have a multitude of food sensitivity issues – but are they trustworthy?

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Interviews & opinion

  • Young man standing still using smartphone in a moving crowd<br>Young businessman standing still amidst a bustling crowd of commuters, focused on his smartphone while surrounded by the movement of city life

    The invisible man: Bryan died in an accident in 2015. Why did it take 10 years to identify him?

  • Adrian Chiles

    The world is getting noisier, and it’s making us ill. I’ve certainly played my part

    Adrian Chiles
  • Sonia Sodha

    Many MPs think it immoral to slash disability benefits – and they’re right

    Sonia Sodha
  • Martha Gill

    We can’t move for therapists but do they help or harm mental health patients?

    Martha Gill
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In mind: focus on mental health

  • Peyo the horse licks the hands of Roger, a patient at the palliative care centre at Calais Hospital.

    ‘Doctor Peyo’: the horse comforting cancer patients in Calais – in pictures

  • illustration

    An illness in the shadows: life with borderline personality disorder

    BPD is one of the mental illnesses we still know least about, but now there is hope of a treatment
  • Yoni Yehuda, an Israeli psychotherapist, with Jack Daniels.

    Cats, camels and a Jesus lizard: the rise of animal-assisted therapy

    Once considered eccentric, using animals in psychotherapy is becoming popular as research reveals benefits
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My working week

  • A woman waits in the shadows

    My working week: ‘I wonder who buys sex from the vulnerable women I try to help’

  • ‘Minor changes make a big difference for disabled people.’

    My working week: 'Julie is disabled and the only one in her team made redundant'

  • GPs have had to adapt patient care during the pandemic.

    My working week: 'A patient arrives at my GP surgery with Covid symptoms'

  • ‘Faith feels lost after the removal of her children. So much of what she knows about herself is as a mother.’ Picture posed by model.

    My working week: 'Fiona's son was taken into care a year ago. Today is his birthday'

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Health

  • orange boxes on a shelf

    Trump administration
    Trump to continue Biden's court defense of abortion drug mifepristone

  • a man in a suit speaks into a bunch of microphones

    Trump administration
    US scientist who touted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid named to pandemic prevention role

    Steven J Hatfill, who promoted the drug despite scant evidence of efficacy, becomes special adviser at HHS
  • Layla Moran

    Opinion
    We all know the crisis in UK social care damages lives and the economy: it’s the Treasury we must convince

    Layla Moran

  • How to build a better life
    Are you a people pleaser? It’s time to find out what you really want

  • US news
    ‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database

Blood, sweat & tears

  • Patient receiving chemotherapy

    Watching my cancer patients go through treatment alone is heartbreaking

    Lucy Gossage
    Covid-19 has made this year tougher for those experiencing treatment and those of us who work in cancer care
  • Surgery

    I tried to take my life five years ago. Now I'm grateful to be alive

    Anonymous surgeon
  • Emergency service ambulance with blue lights flashing

    There's a patient I'll never forget. Their burns and screams still haunt me

    Anonymous
  • A protestor outside the Scottish parliament building

    My husband is in a care home. I visit him for 30 minutes each week in a car park

    Anonymous
  • Catherine Pointer University of Southampton general hospital

    I was diagnosed with cancer at 14. Now I work alongside a doctor who treated me

    Catherine Pointer
  • Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson

    I'm disabled but was told I won't receive critical care if I get Covid. It's terrifying

    Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson
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Social care

  • Frances Ryan

    Look at how Reform speaks about minorities. Why would Labour want to mimic this nasty party?

    Frances Ryan
  • Lucy Powell wearing a white jacket and white blouse

    No 10 backs Lucy Powell after her apology for grooming gangs remark

  • Guy Shahar, Oxana and their son, Daniel, looking out of a window.

    Mother of autistic boy left with £10,000 debt after breaching DWP rules by £1.92 a week

  • collage of old photos of a man and a woman

    In the US, not even $11,000 a month can buy you dignity at the end of your life

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Central & local government

  • A poster declaring:"Say no to racist Reform UK" in a shop window in Runcorn town centre 48 hours ahead of the byelection

    Labour must offer a hopeful vision to voters, not ape Reform

  • Zia Yusuf making a speech

    Reform UK to resist housing asylum seekers in its council areas, chair says

  • John Harris

    The English question now isn’t about Reform or party politics: it’s the rage that means we can’t talk to each other any more

    John Harris
  • A composite showing a giant slot machine towering above terraced houses

    Spin doctors: gambling firms adopt hard tactics to flood towns with 24-hour slot machines

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Voluntary sector

  • The king reading cards and messages, sent by well-wishers following his cancer diagnosis, at Buckingham Palace.

    King Charles says cancer diagnosis made him ‘one of the statistics’

  • Two students are walking down a well-lit school corridor, seen from the back, carrying backpacks.

    Youth experience in Britain on a charity worker visa

  • George Eliot, aged 30, by Alexandre-Louis-François d'Albert-Durade

    How to change the world? Good grows out of unhistoric acts

  • The Pennine Way heading to Pen-y-ghent in the Yorkshire Dales.

    I walked the Pennine Way to help other children

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Housing

  • New homes under construction in Windsor, Berkshire

    Labour’s planning bill threatens protected habitats, says environment watchdog

    • Some new-build houses with solar panels on the roofs

      Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027

    • Meadow rich in colourful red poppies providing seeds for birds and flowers for insects

      Planning and infrastructure bill is not a ‘great nature sellout’

    • Goalposts on an overgrown football pitch

      Thousands of playing fields ‘may be lost’ if Sport England stripped of planning role

    • England had the highest rate of homelessness in the developed world in 2023, according to the OECD

      In charts: the scale of England’s temporary accommodation crisis

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