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Society

  • Department for Work and Pensions sign on the exterior wall of Caxton House in London, as two people walk past

    Hailed as a hero and then sacked: the carer’s allowance whistleblower

  • An older man waits at a pedestrian crossing pushing a person in a wheelchair

    Sunak under pressure to grant amnesty to unpaid carers fined for rule breaches

    Concern grows over legality of government’s approach as new figures show more than 150,000 carers facing huge penalties
  • Busy nurses on an NHS hospital ward

    Nurses in England took an average of one week off sick for stress last year, data shows

    Chronic workforce shortages have put nursing staff under unbearable pressure, says union chief
  • Teenage girl in summery wear enjoying a Heineken, face masked by a hat

    We know how to deter British children from alcohol, say experts, after concerns over WHO report

  • An older woman sitting at a table in her home looking depressed

    About 2m people have long Covid in England and Scotland, figures show

  • Matthew Caseby

    Father of man who died after neglect at Priory calls for investigation into second hospital

  • Alcoholic drinks on a table

    Great Britain has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds

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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

  • British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speak to the media in Berlin, following talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Chancellery on 24 April.

    Health policy
    Rishi Sunak is punishing the sick to cover up his own failures

  • A group of people walking

    Sport
    Grey wave of walkers spearhead record activity levels among England’s over-55s

    Increase in walking among older people key to general activity in England returning to pre-Covid levels
  • A doctor holds a patient's hand at a desk

    Fair Access
    Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals

    Exclusive: MSF calls for transparency after its bill for a trial of TB treatment came to a fraction of the billions claimed by pharmaceutical companies

  • Science
    From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcast

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

  • Angela van den Bogerd arrives at the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry

    Ex-Post Office executive says she does not recall email telling her Horizon terminals could be remotely accessed – as it happened

  • Mother and child are sitting on windowsill.

    Children in care – there’s one in every classroom

  • A silhouetted male pushing an unidentifiable person in a wheelchair along seafront as the sun sets.

    UK government dementia adviser resigns over prosecutions of carers

  • Sir William Beveridge pictured in 1943

    Ignorance still stalks the land

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Central & local government

  • An artist's impression of a tall block on metal stilts over a Georgian building.

    ‘Ludicrous’ plan to build skyscraper over Georgian Birmingham building rejected

  • Tony Travers

    Elected mayors have made their mark, but still Westminster hogs power. That’s a national embarrassment

    Tony Travers
  • Protester with yellow placard reading: Tory Rwanda 'plan' finally reaches peak insanity. VOTE THEM OUT!

    Sunak ‘confident’ civil service will enact Rwanda bill despite legal concerns

  • A polling station.

    ‘Like the Somme without the generals’: Tory nerves grow as local elections loom

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Voluntary sector

  • How much am I bid? … Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in Love Actually.

    Love Actually, Barbie and Saltburn memorabilia auctioned for War Child

  • Aerial view of large house and outbuildings

    Captain Tom Moore’s Bedfordshire house on sale for £2.25m

  • Marathon runners passing under a bridge

    ‘Glorious day’: London Marathon organisers hail 2024 event as records fall

  • 'Follyfoot' TV -<br>Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/Shutterstock (1003474aa) 'Follyfoot' TV - 1973 - Four Legged Hat - Dora [Gillian Blake], Ron Stryker [Christian Rodska] 'Follyfoot' TV -

    Letter: Christian Rodska obituary

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Housing

  • three side by side images of apartment photos that might be seen on social media, with captions advertising rooms with disclaimers like "must be ok with rabbits", "must be ok with five other housemates if anyone asks please say you are my cousin visiting on a foreign exchange program", "very cheap deal as long as you can water my plants and do my laundry"

    ‘Must love dogs and rude roommates’: the scramble to get around New York’s Airbnb crackdown

    • ‘To let’ signs dot a street in south London.

      Thursday briefing: How Michael Gove’s ‘new deal’ for renters went sour

    • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with Rishi Sunak after a press conference in Berlin.

      Sunak claims defence spending plan won’t affect government’s ability to cut taxes – as it happened

    • Angela Rayner speaking at PMQs

      Angela Rayner tells ministers to focus on no-fault evictions, not her house sale

    • Angela Rayner in a hard hat and hi-vis jacket at a construction site

      Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?

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