Social care: Many words have been spoken, yet so little change has been delivered
Our services are in crisis – more help is needed and it is needed now.
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Weight-loss drugs and the supremacy of thinness
Anyone who has struggled with weight or eating disorders has dreamt of a magical fix. Now, it seems, we have…
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Caution should prevail on the assisted dying bill
It is far easier to give the right to an assisted death than to take it away.
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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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Labour’s first policy should be to break up the NHS
It would be dramatic and counter-intuitive – but rebuilding healthcare around the doctor-patient relationship is a vital reform.
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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 to fund prevention and help save the NHS
Place-based outcomes partnerships can help the NHS move away from the sickness service model.
Data can lead us to the truth or, as Rishi Sunak prefers, distort it
The Prime Minister’s cynical attack on “sick-note culture” was a missed chance to investigate the rise in long-term illness.
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Inside the collapse of the Tavistock Centre
Why the world’s largest gender clinic for children is closing.
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How the UK-India trade deal threatens affordable medicines
The government is pushing for strengthened intellectual property rules for India-made pharmaceuticals.
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How council funding impacts public health
While focus often falls on the NHS, cuts to local authority budgets have had serious consequences for the UK’s healthcare…
By Do healthcare guidelines prioritise consistency over patient care?
Nice needs to lead the debate about treatments that may be too low-value to justify using NHS resources.
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Why junior doctors are right to strike
Also this week: winter travel chaos and the ongoing neglect of women’s health.
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Why we need a new way of thinking about obesity
The former health minister and chair of Business for Health on why intervention is needed in a broken junk food…
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What does an ageing population mean for the future of healthcare?
At New Statesman panel, organised in partnership with Biogen, looked at the impact of demographics on maintaining health and social…
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People blame the economy and work for ill-health – not just the NHS
Exclusive data by Opinium for the Fairness Foundation has shown that the majority of people believe social determinants are making…
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The Policy Ask with Richard Torbett: “The pandemic really demonstrated what the pharma industry does for the world”
The chief executive of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry on joining Horizon, R&D policy, and his morning run.
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Lessons from the pandemic
Tackling Covid-19 in its endemic phase requires long-term planning and vision.
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Partnership is the path to better health outcomes
Why we must work together to transform care.
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