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Society

  • Gemma Collins.

    Watchdog bans Gemma Collins advert promoting headset to treat depression

  • Artificial stone worktops on display in a showroom

    UK urged to consider ban on artificial stone worktops over silicosis risk

    Leading medic calls for urgent action to protect those who cut the material after rise in cases of the incurable disease
  • NHS file photo.

    Healthcare workers: how have you been affected by the UK riots?

    We want to hear from people working in the NHS about their reactions and experiences in recent days
  • Barbed wire along top of fence at prison.

    HMP Wandsworth had seven inmate suicides in past year, report finds

  • Gravestones in Nunhead cemetery, south-east London.

    ‘Celebrations of life’ increasingly replacing traditional funerals in UK, study shows

  • Doctor working in a consulting room with a sign on the door

    NHS ‘soup and shake’ diet puts almost a third of type 2 diabetes cases in remission

  • Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool

    Waiting list for children’s gender care rose after opening of new specialist hubs

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Interviews & opinion

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    Questions of life and death: life on the streets and how a pub quiz saved me

  • Girl Boss mug

    Smashing the girlboss myths: how women are doing ambition on their own terms

  • Eva Wiseman

    Women’s prisons have served their time. They should be abolished

    Eva Wiseman
  • Eva Wiseman

    We need more than trompe-l’oeil to fix our housing crisis

    Eva Wiseman
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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

  • Staff on an NHS hospital ward

    Trade unions
    Unions welcome scrapping of Tories’ ‘spiteful’ minimum service law

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    Drugs
    The end-of-life patients finding solace in magic mushrooms: ‘What life after life could be like’

    Some with terminal cancer have said psilocybin helped them confront death. But how that happens is still unclear
  • Polly Toynbee

    Opinion
    England’s GPs are squaring up to the government – but it’s an unnecessary battle

    Polly Toynbee

  • GPs
    GPs have been forced to take industrial action

  • Antibiotics
    Britain’s pharmacists could be treating more people

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

  • Man wrapped in a blanket looking out of a window on a Rainy Day

    Challenges to deprivation of liberty orders in England soar by a third

  • Polly Toynbee

    Labour is right to ditch the winter fuel allowance – it isn’t ‘robbing’ old people

    Polly Toynbee
  • Angela Rayner announcing housing reforms in parliament.

    Greens say Labour should focus more on building council homes and that new housing plan is flawed – as it happened

  • Debbie cares full-time for her elderly mother, works part-time as a cleaner, and claims carer's allowance of £81.90 a week. But she was one of hundreds of thousands of carers to receive a demand from the Department for Work and Pensions to pay back large sums of money for inadvertently going slightly over the earnings limit. Now Debbie and carers like her are starting to fight back and demand change to the system

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    I'm under attack and fighting back: the scandal trapping carers - video

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Central & local government

  • Phoday Jarjussey

    Phoday Jarjussey obituary

  • Protesters called on the UK government to end arms sales to Israel in a demonstration in London, Saturday 3 August 2024.

    UK reportedly suspends arms export licence applications for Israel ‘pending review’

  • Somal leans, with folded arms, against a breeze-block pillar

    Special educational needs system in England in ‘utter disarray’, says ombudsman

  • Downing Street and Whitehall street signs

    UK civil servants could be given means to raise ethical concerns, report suggests

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Voluntary sector

  • Lea Milligan

    Lea Milligan obituary

  • HvH Arts CEO Debbi Clark with children at its summer scheme.

    ‘Will the kids eat or not?’ In Keir Starmer’s constituency, families struggle with poverty

  • Ampleforth College

    Ampleforth inquiry finds alleged serious abuse against pupils in last 10 years

  • A prison officer walks across an empty landing of a prison

    Labour must avoid release of high-risk offenders in prison plans, charity warns

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Housing

  • A new-build housing estate in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear.

    Cracks in Angela Rayner’s plan for a housing revolution

    • Ollie and Imogen leaning against a wall

      Family violence and childhoods lost: census shows ‘horrifying’ plight of homeless youths in Melbourne

    • An upturned car burns after it was set on fire in front of houses in Middlesbrough

      England riots: what help is available for affected homeowners and businesses?

    • L&G’s East River Wharf development in Silvertown, east London.

      L&G warns housebuilding drive needs decade to tackle housing crisis at current pace

    • Rowan Moore

      Ignore the Livids of Tunbridge Wells and build homes, but build them well

      Rowan Moore
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