Q&A: Why are so many palliative care doctors against assisted dying?
Until the NHS solves its funding crisis, the UK cannot afford to debate this legislation.
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Making a new weight-loss drug available on the NHS will break the system
There isn’t capacity to accommodate the millions that would seek it.
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The menopause industry is a murky area of women’s healthcare
There is little evidence to back up claims made about symptoms, treatment and care.
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The BMA turns away from rejecting the Cass Report
The doctors’ union has voted to retain a neutral position on the issue.
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Wes Streeting: “I don’t want to be the fun police”
The Health Secretary on Labour’s killjoy image and why the NHS will “go bust” without reform.
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Medicine wars
A revolt over patient safety and declining expertise is tearing the medical establishment apart.
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Today’s health service is a travesty of what it used to be
The Conservatives have subjected the NHS to the most savage funding squeeze in its history.
By A GP’s dilemma: to A&E or not to A&E?
Urgent appointments for children was once the rule in British general practice. They’re now the exception.
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What a historic Labour win will mean for Britain
The bigger Keir Starmer’s majority, the faster and more dramatic the impact of his government will be.
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Why won’t Labour tell the truth about the NHS?
Keir Starmer’s answer on private healthcare left too much unsaid.
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The junior doctors’ strike is not a gift to Labour
A short-term campaigning win on the NHS is also a long-term headache.
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Dan Poulter: “I voted for policies that I would not now vote for”
The doctor and Tory defector Dan Poulter on the state of the NHS and where his former party went wrong.
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What we must learn from the infected blood scandal
This failure and its cover-up reveals the harm done by the NHS’s “institutional defensiveness”.
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How hormones rule our lives
From sex to eating, birth to body temperature, our physical selves do what our chemical masters tell us.
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Letter of the week: Maternal responsibility
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The Cass Review into children’s gender care should shame us all
Why was the prescription of puberty blockers to distressed children allowed to continue for so long?
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The trauma ward
Each year thousands of women suffer the nightmare of a traumatic birth. I was one of them.
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Our A&E crisis is killing hundreds a week – and government spin can’t hide it
A new programme to increase competition between hospitals is pure The Thick of It politics.
By I can’t find a diagnosis for Ted – but he can diagnose modern medicine
“Everything’s decided on thousands of people,” he told me. “That can’t possibly tell you what to do for any individual.”
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The deep roots of doctors’ dissent
Disputes between the UK government and its lowest-paid physicians go back decades. They began in 1964, with the creation of…
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