Healthcare

Breaking the cycle: Why health equality is key to ending poverty 
Big Issue Invest

Breaking the cycle: Why health equality is key to ending poverty 

Health equality is not only vital for individual wellbeing but also serves as a powerful lever in the fight to end poverty

Inside the UK’s first drugs consumption room – and how it can save lives amid soaring drug deaths
Drugs

Inside the UK’s first drugs consumption room – and how it can save lives amid soaring drug deaths

The Thistle, Glasgow’s safer drugs consumption room, launches this month. It’s a radical step in tackling Scotland’s drug deaths crisis

‘I have patients in pain waiting years’: Healthcare workers ‘cautious’ about Labour’s NHS plans
NHS

‘I have patients in pain waiting years’: Healthcare workers ‘cautious’ about Labour’s NHS plans

Keir Starmer has announced a plan to reduce NHS waiting lists, but can it work? NHS workers and experts weigh in on whether Labour can achieve its ‘ambitious’ targets

Buffer zones outside abortion clinics are step in right direction – but other problems persist
Abortion

Buffer zones outside abortion clinics are step in right direction – but other problems persist

Starmer wants a ‘dramatic reimagining’ of the NHS. What does that mean for you?
NHS

Starmer wants a ‘dramatic reimagining’ of the NHS. What does that mean for you?

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‘An act of desperation’: GPs vote for industrial action for the first time in 60 years
Employment

‘An act of desperation’: GPs vote for industrial action for the first time in 60 years

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

One of the biggest crises facing the UK is barely talked about – the crisis of an ageing population
James Rose

One of the biggest crises facing the UK is barely talked about – the crisis of an ageing population

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

Bridging the health and wellbeing gap for Big Issue vendors

‘The pain was too much’: Black woman says she almost died in childbirth due to ‘racial prejudices’
Health

‘The pain was too much’: Black woman says she almost died in childbirth due to ‘racial prejudices’

Healthcare for trans youth is a human right – it should matter to us all
Chiara Capraro

Healthcare for trans youth is a human right – it should matter to us all

‘Gin, pliers and brute force:’ Dentists accuse Rishi Sunak of forcing Brits to pull their own teeth
Dental crisis

‘Gin, pliers and brute force:’ Dentists accuse Rishi Sunak of forcing Brits to pull their own teeth

Assisted dying: The right to die shouldn’t only be for the rich. But could legalising it harm the poor?
Assisted dying

Assisted dying: The right to die shouldn’t only be for the rich. But could legalising it harm the poor?

Healthy life expectancy in Liverpool is just 58: Most deprived areas of UK need better healthcare
Health

Healthy life expectancy in Liverpool is just 58: Most deprived areas of UK need better healthcare

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’

Malnutrition impacts half a million and costs the NHS billions. UK government needs to ‘wake up’
Malnutrition

Malnutrition impacts half a million and costs the NHS billions. UK government needs to ‘wake up’

The NHS is in crisis – and time is not on its side
Paul McNamee

The NHS is in crisis – and time is not on its side

‘He begged mummy to take him home’: Autistic man ‘abused’ while being kept in mental hospital for six years
Mental Health Act

‘He begged mummy to take him home’: Autistic man ‘abused’ while being kept in mental hospital for six years

As the NHS turns 75, let’s celebrate it – and fight for it  
Dr Julia Grace Patterson

As the NHS turns 75, let’s celebrate it – and fight for it  

What it’s like being a doctor in our broken NHS
NHS Crisis

What it’s like being a doctor in our broken NHS

Even funding the NHS properly won’t solve all the problems caused by austerity
Jaimie Kaffash

Even funding the NHS properly won’t solve all the problems caused by austerity

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What is polio and why is it back?
Polio

What is polio and why is it back?

500 nurses and midwives are quitting every week
NHS

500 nurses and midwives are quitting every week

Daily testing for critical workers labelled ‘hopelessly inadequate’ as it will only reach 1%
Covid

Daily testing for critical workers labelled ‘hopelessly inadequate’ as it will only reach 1%

‘Entirely predictable’ NHS staff crisis risks derailing plan to tackle 5.8 million patient backlog
NHS

‘Entirely predictable’ NHS staff crisis risks derailing plan to tackle 5.8 million patient backlog