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  • A blurred out view of hospital staff on an NHS ward

    ‘Cuts will result in patient deaths’: hospitals shed medical staff after being told to balance the books

  • Around three in every five prisons in England and Wales are now overcrowded.

    Prisons ‘sleepwalking into crisis’ as inmates forced to share single cells

    Longer sentences and court backlogs push 25% of prisoners in England and Wales into shared cells, adding to drug-use and violence
  • Some teenagers were angry adults dodged uncomfortable conversations about sex.

    From doomscrolling to sex: being a boy in 2024

    I travelled the country interviewing teenage boys. I found openness, thoughtfulness, honesty and vulnerability on topics from sex, to pornography, feelings and isolation
  • A car with signs on it in front of people in masks holding up signs stand in front of building

    Domestic violence victims are often criminalized. A California bill wants to change that

  • Michelle Johnstone walking down a path through a park or wood with Fergus, a toddler, walking beside her, holding her hand

    Warning over asthma drug after 500 neuropsychiatric reactions reported in young children

  • Leo Jacobs, who died of a drug overdose, should have been seen by a nurse every two weeks.

    NHS mental health trust failings linked to more than 30 deaths in Norfolk and Suffolk

  • A teenage boy sits in a dark room, covering his eyes with his hand

    How can parents protect their children from sextortion?

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Interviews & opinion

  • Dr Hilary Cass

    ‘Children are being used as a football’: Hilary Cass on her review of gender identity services

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    There is a perfect time to shower – and it’s not when you think

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Lisa Mosconi

    Neurology professor Lisa Mosconi: ‘Menopause is a renovation project on the brain’

  • Hilary Osborne

    I was stunned when diagnosed with cancer. Then I had to work out how to tell my son

    Hilary Osborne
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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

  • Janet Etuk and Jacob Meadows in Cold.

    Film
    Cold review – theatrically evocative folk-tale treatment of the pain of miscarriage

  • A young man poses for a photograph in a garden

    Contaminated blood scandal
    Revealed: key files shredded as UK government panic grew over infected blood deaths lawsuit

    Lost documents prevented victims from finding out the truth, official inquiry told
  • Keir Starmer with Dan Poulter at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

    Observer letters
    Dan Poulter’s defection won’t fix an unequal NHS

    The health service took a turn for the worse under David Cameron and Keir Starmer has said nothing of improving the nurses’ lot

  • Home improvements
    ‘There are so many benefits’: why more and more Britons are building a home sauna

  • Opinion
    How old is too old? I’m 77 and I don’t know yet. But I will when I get there

    Polly Toynbee

  • Benefits
    Ministers are callous and clueless on Pip payments

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

  • Torsten Bell

    Spending cuts are often false economies that end up costing society dearly

    Torsten Bell
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Fostering is getting a shot of much-needed millennial energy – just ask Kiri Pritchard-McLean

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • graphic image showing a school sign, ballot cards and a pencil, an ambulance, a police car, a cyclist, a pothole and a wheelie bin

    From potholes to planning: key issues in England’s 2 May local elections

  • A teenage girl sitting in a dark doorway with light coming from an adjoining room

    Vulnerable teenagers ‘dumped and abandoned’ in hotels by councils in England

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Central & local government

  • Andy Street looks dejected as he leaves Birmingham’s International Convention Centre

    Andy Street’s West Midlands defeat shows the heavy baggage of brand Tory

  • Khan making his victory speech in London yesterday.

    Sadiq Khan’s win ‘bucks trend’ of Muslim voters rejecting Labour over Gaza, say party figures

  • Sadiq Khan makes a speech as he is re-elected for a record third time as mayor of London on Saturday.

    Desperate Tories left in disarray as Labour celebrates seismic swing

  • Keir Starmer and Claire Ward hug, clutching a microphone, in front of a crowd holding "Britain's Future" signs

    Local elections drubbing shows time is nearly up for the Conservatives

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Voluntary sector

  • Protesters clashing with police officers

    ‘They hear a bang at the door and it’s the Home Office’: threat of being ‘disappeared’ haunts asylum seekers amid Rwanda crackdown

  • A woman takes a photo of T-shirt using her smartphone to sell her clothes

    Press for success: four tips from readers on the best ways to sell secondhand clothes

  • Adrian Chiles

    How do you describe the view to someone who can’t see? I couldn’t even do justice to a canal towpath

    Adrian Chiles
  • Pearl Roberts

    Pearl Roberts obituary

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Housing

  • Signs asking people to respect locals and that 'Lahaina is not for sale' are seen on the side of the Lahaina Bypass, in Lahaina, Hawaii.

    Hawaii to limit vacation rentals in response to tight housing market

    • Sue Elliott-Nicholls

      My two adult kids have had to move back home. Should I be charging them rent – and if so, how much?

      Sue Elliott-Nicholls
    • Park plaza

      ‘It’s like winning the lottery’: the mobile home owners buying the land they live on

    • ‘Everyone felt so empowered’ … Janice Graham and Jasmin Stone.

      ‘Those two weeks felt how the world should be’: the young single mums who took on the housing crisis – and won

    • ‘They’ve got the car, the hat, the T-shirt. The apartment is the natural progression’ … the Aston Martin Residences.

      A 007 paradise – or lads holiday in Marbella? Inside Aston Martin’s lavish Miami penthouses

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