Readers respond to the launch of the NHS Every Mind Matters campaign and share their thoughts on other mental health issuesCongratulations to Suzanne Moore for highlighting those who are forgotten in campaigns such as Every Mind Matters (Telling people…
Sick claimants were wrongly denied benefits because they were not taking powerful painkillersCampaigners have forced a government U-turn after demonstrating that chronically ill claimants suffering severe pain were wrongly denied disability benefits on…
Yoga, pilates and Dragons’ Den-style contests are among a host of innovations that are turning around failing trustsHow do failing NHS trusts get back to delivering high-quality care? The answer, a new study suggests, can involve emulating Dragons’ Den…
From employing EU citizens to driving in Ireland, plan aims to show UK ready for crashing outAll the day’s political developments – liveThe government’s “comprehensive” plan to prepare the country for a no-deal Brexit has been released.The 159-page doc…
Guardian readers respond to our report on the role the NHS’s antibiotic crackdown has played in UTI-related hospitalisationsI read your article (Antibiotic crackdown linked to big rise in women ending up in hospital with cystitis, 5 October) with great…
Reciprocal scheme in which NHS reimburses cost of treatment will cease under a no-deal BrexitBritons with serious, sometimes terminal, illnesses who live in the EU say they have no certainty about how or even whether their healthcare costs will be cove…
Rorie Fulton on combating unwitting support for populists, and Richard Bryden on civic spaces that facilitate ‘reasoned conversation’George Monbiot makes a telling link between individuals’ affective state and the unwitting support we lend to demagogue…
Officials admit the Conservative leadership contest set back plans to secure enough medicines in the event of a no-deal outcomeThe Conservative party’s leadership election delayed crucial plans to secure the flow of key medical supplies in the event of…
Government ignoring needs of vulnerable patients, trusts claimMental health patients are at risk of suicide because so many of the units they are treated in are dangerously decrepit, say NHS chiefs.Crumbling old buildings are unsafe as they offer oppor…
Hugh Whittall writes that other, less instrusive measures must be exhausted before compulsory programmes can be consideredMaking vaccinations compulsory for state school pupils could risk causing more problems than it solves (Compulsory vaccinations ma…
Campaigner for reproductive rights and health in the developing worldThe harrowing experiences that Fred Sai faced as a young medical officer in Ghana in the 1960s fuelled his concern about the link between frequent childbearing and preventable death a…
Mount Vernon so dilapidated and short-staffed that it cannot provide basic elements of treatmentAn NHS cancer hospital has such crumbling buildings, out-of-date equipment and staffing problems that patients’ safety and quality of care are at risk, a bo…
Joan Pons Laplana says fears over no-deal Brexit caused mental health to deteriorateA Spanish healthcare worker who was named Britain’s nurse of the year has said he had a mental breakdown because of Brexit.Joan Pons Laplana said the uncertainty surrou…
Dr Mu-Chun Chiang was told to leave the UK after a tiny error in her visa application despite 18 years in the countryThe Home Office has abandoned its plan to deport an NHS doctor who has lived in the UK for 18 years, after its decision to throw her ou…
Dr Mu-Chun Chiang has lived in Britain most of her life and was training to be a GPAn NHS doctor who has lived most of her life in Britain is due to be deported and stopped from becoming a GP after making a small error in her application for a new work…
Huge warehouse in secret location holds £5m worth of medical products and foodA cavernous £11m warehouse stocked with £5m of medical products and food has been set up on a business park in south Wales in readiness for a no-deal Brexit.The Labour-led We…
Boris Johnson is dazzling voters with talk of new hospitals and technology. He should be tackling a crippling staff shortfallAs predictable as English downpours are the pools of water I have to sidestep in hospital corridors, caused by the leaking, ric…
Guardian readers discuss the Conservative party conference, and the party’s political legacy so farDescribing the chancellor’s speech as “hyperbole that crumbles under scrutiny” is a kind way of making clear that it was nothing more than a cynical jumb…
Treating flu | Doorstep politics | Douglas Adams | Tea or dinner?Can David Cox advise on how I can time travel back to pre-2010? This would enable me to follow his advice to get a doctor’s appointment and an antiviral prescription within 48 hours of no…
Treating flu | Doorstep politics | Douglas Adams | Tea or dinner?Can David Cox advise on how I can time travel back to pre-2010? This would enable me to follow his advice to get a doctor’s appointment and an antiviral prescription within 48 hours of no…
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