Health care

Care homes at risk of closure as new visa rules drive staffing crisis: ‘The sector can’t function’
Social care crisis

Care homes at risk of closure as new visa rules drive staffing crisis: ‘The sector can’t function’

The social care sector has around 130,000 vacancies. But tough visa rules have made it impossible to fill them

GPs threaten to bring ‘NHS to a standstill’ with industrial action as junior doctors reach pay deal
NHS

GPs threaten to bring ‘NHS to a standstill’ with industrial action as junior doctors reach pay deal

‘We have lost the equivalent of 1,715 full-time, fully qualified GPs since 2015, and our teams are delivering an average of 1.45 million appointments a day’

Bridging the health and wellbeing gap for Big Issue vendors
Behind the scenes

Bridging the health and wellbeing gap for Big Issue vendors

The work and perspective of a Big Issue support worker in Bournemouth. Helen discusses the holistic approach needed to tackle health disparities, energy poverty, and other critical issues faced by Big Issue vendors.

Delta Goodrem on ‘angel’ healthcare workers and advice Olivia Newton-John shared after cancer diagnosis
Music

Delta Goodrem on ‘angel’ healthcare workers and advice Olivia Newton-John shared after cancer diagnosis

Why Sunak’s benefit cuts and crackdown on ‘sick note culture’ harms children like my daughter
Izzy G

Why Sunak’s benefit cuts and crackdown on ‘sick note culture’ harms children like my daughter

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‘Enormous’ number of privatised NHS services across the UK, mapped: ‘This is bad for everyone’
Healthcare

‘Enormous’ number of privatised NHS services across the UK, mapped: ‘This is bad for everyone’

How Rishi Sunak’s smoking ban became a fight between individual freedom and public health
Smoking ban

How Rishi Sunak’s smoking ban became a fight between individual freedom and public health

There’s a mental health crisis in NHS, says writer and comedian Adam Kay: ‘So little is being done’
Mental health

There’s a mental health crisis in NHS, says writer and comedian Adam Kay: ‘So little is being done’

NHS recruitment crisis worsens as private sector pay growth reaches record-breaking highs
Recruitment crisis

NHS recruitment crisis worsens as private sector pay growth reaches record-breaking highs

Carers ‘devastated’ at end of free Covid tests amid record infections
Cost of Living Crisis

Carers ‘devastated’ at end of free Covid tests amid record infections

Early ‘pills by post’ abortions service could be made permanent by MPs
Health

Early ‘pills by post’ abortions service could be made permanent by MPs

The doctor who gave up her career to fight NHS privatisation
NHS

The doctor who gave up her career to fight NHS privatisation

Doctors and MPs join ‘save the NHS’ protest outside parliament
NHS

Doctors and MPs join ‘save the NHS’ protest outside parliament

National insurance hike will leave NHS workers funding their own pay rise
Employment

National insurance hike will leave NHS workers funding their own pay rise

Experts join forces to tackle ‘entrenched’ North/South health inequality
News

Experts join forces to tackle ‘entrenched’ North/South health inequality