I confronted him about funding at Whipps Cross hospital. His reassurances since are utterly unconvincingA few days after my daughter was born, she nearly died. During this time, she had to wait for hours on a ward at Whipps Cross hospital in east Londo…
We have championed prohibition and driven drug supply into the hands of increasingly violent criminals, says Pat HudsonI take issue with your editorial on the Commons health and social care committee report on current UK drug policy (The evidence canno…
The climate emergency is a health emergency, and we are being poisoned in our towns every dayNine more people in Bristol and 13 in Derby are going to have a stroke because of air pollution. Dirty air will give 12 more people in Birmingham and 87 in Lon…
Beyond Brexit, this government has a lot to answer for – an election will do it no favoursThe grindstones of Brexit pound everything else into the ground. Boris Johnson claims day after day that if only parliament would “get it done”, the country would…
Readers condemn the latest select committee report into the treatment of children with learning disabilitiesThis is the most damning select committee report I’ve ever read (Children with special needs plunged into ‘nightmare of bureaucracy’, 23 October…
It is easier to find fault with prohibition than to design a perfect system, but there is clear evidence that the current methods are failingMuch of the harm caused by illegal drugs is caused by their illegality. Prohibition helps to turn users into cr…
Judge instructs jury to find woman not guilty after legal changes come into forceA court in Northern Ireland has acquitted a woman who was prosecuted for buying online abortion pills for her daughter, after the decriminalisation of abortion in the regi…
Hospital in prime minister’s constituency has moved child patients because of subsidenceBoris Johnson has been drawn into a row over the future of his local hospital, parts of which are so dangerous that patients have been moved out of wards to ensure …
As one council starts paying by the minute for homecare visits, adult social care urgently needs more than a quick fixThe face of social care is changing. The steady shift away from looking after older people in residential care to supporting more of t…
Equality campaigners were celebrating before the midnight deadline for law to take effectNorthern Ireland is to legalise abortion and same-sex marriage after an 11th-hour attempt by the region’s assembly to block change collapsed into farce.Equality ca…
Members to stage what is expected to be a largely symbolic recall of the assemblyMembers of Northern Ireland’s assembly are due to return to the mothballed chamber on Monday for the first time in almost three years to protest against the extension of a…
The PM’s Brexit plan loosens the economic ties to the EU, so what would be the impact?Latest Brexit news – live updatesThe PM’s renegotiated deal opens the way to a much looser relationship with the EU than envisaged by his predecessor, Theresa May, an…
Labour MP accuses government of willingness to let Stormont be in control of abortion lawsLabour MP Stella Creasy has accused the government of preparing to hand back control of abortion rights to Stormont to help curry favour with the DUP at a critica…
The recommendation to ban eating on public transport is just one small step, says Richard Carter, a better approach may be to introduce levies on the takeaway boxes, says Rachel Hadden, and Brian Josephson points out that the ban is not on all public t…
Almost a quarter of population of city is processed by algorithm used to guide actions of frontline staffOne in three councils using algorithms to make welfare decisionsDay and night, an IBM computer algorithm whirrs through reams of data about the liv…
If pharmaceutical companies rapidly inflate the price of their products, is there an alternative? One Dutch chemist thinks so. By Chris Stokel-WalkerWhen a pharmaceutical company raised the price of an essential medicine to unacceptable levels, there w…
BBC decision to transfer cost of licence fee will hit vulnerable older people hard, says LabourMore than half a million older people with dementia could be forced to pay for their TV licences from next year, according to research commissioned by Labour…
Boris Johnson’s aide was consultant for AI startup that could win share of £250m fund Boris Johnson’s most senior aide, Dominic Cummings, is facing conflict of interest accusations over a consultancy role he undertook for a government-endorsed healthca…
Letter featuring Charlotte Johnson Wahl had been due to run in the Times this weekBoris Johnson’s mother has withdrawn her name from a public letter expressing concerns about the poor provision of Parkinson’s treatment on the NHS following an intervent…
Top child psychiatrist appeals to Johnson over Home Office’s ‘almost callous’ decisionA leading children’s psychiatrist plans to quit the NHS and move to Australia because of the Home Office’s “almost callous” refusal to let his mother stay in Britain….
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