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  • Box of the insulin drug Humalog

    Insulin shortages ‘causing stress and anxiety’ for UK diabetes patients

  • Five people in business clothes sit around a table

    UK charities hiring staff with ‘privilege not potential’, report author warns

    Exclusive: Working-class people less likely to get jobs in charities than public and private sectors, EY Foundation report finds
  • A vial of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

    MMR jab uptake among young people in England up by 23% since 2023, says NHS

    Exclusive: Vaccinations rise amid national campaign, but reported measles cases have increased by 40% since March
  • Ads for 888.com online casino on (clockwise from left) a tube train, saying 'this carriage is now a casino'; on a taxi, saying 'fancy a spin?'; and at a bus stop, saying 'your bus is now a casion'

    Online casino firm 888.com to withdraw UK adverts after backlash

  • The bar at Ministry of Sound nightclub

    ‘I know my limit’: how gen Z became Britain’s ‘sober-curious’ generation

  • 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

  • James Righton drinking from a tall mug of beer next to Jamie Reynolds with his mouth on a beer bottle and Simon Taylor-Davis of Klaxons at a bar

    It’s 20 years since the UK hit ‘peak booze’. The hangover is still with us

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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

  • Rosemary in her garden leaning against a wall.

    Healthcare industry
    ‘No one’s being honest about it’: how NHS crisis forces patients to go private

  • Dr Dan Poulter seen in a village street on a sunny day and is wearing a tweed jacket and blue shirt with a blue Conservatives rosette on his lapel

    Conservatives
    MP’s defection reflects ‘disillusionment’ of Tory voters, says Wes Streeting

    Shadow health secretary said Dan Poulter’s defection showed he believed ‘only Labour can be trusted with the NHS’
  • Baby Reindeer characters Donny and Martha at the bar in a pub

    Television
    Why row over Baby Reindeer sleuths will change real-life drama for ever

    Netflix’s No 1 hit show sparks legal and moral debate over identities in true-crime stories

  • Observer letters
    We must learn the lessons of Covid before another deadly disease strikes

  • Opinion
    The Observer view on Dan Poulter and the failing Conservative government

  • Politics
    I am resigning from the Tory party and crossing the floor. Only Labour wants to restore our NHS

    Dan Poulter

  • Conservatives
    Top Tory MP defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis

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

  • 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 caregiver pushes a man in a wheelchair on footpath

    Work and pensions committee chair tells ministers to fix carer’s allowance issues

  • Loїs Williams at Rada, 1945

    Loїs Williams obituary

  • 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

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Central & local government

  • Richard Partington

    From welfare to warfare: Sunak’s spending shift imperils local services again

    Richard Partington
  • A Labour party rosette.

    ‘It would be seismic to win in Sunak’s backyard’: is Labour about to paint England red?

  • A ballot box sitting on a table

    From Tyneside to London: five key battlegrounds in England’s 2 May local elections

  • Sadiq Khan photographed outdoors with a blurred background of grass and trees; he is wearing a brown quilted anorak zipped up high under a dark blue jacket

    Sadiq Khan’s green credentials may be critical in London mayoral election

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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

  • Houria Ayadi / Ed Alcock / MYOP<br>The 129-apartment building where Houria Ayadi (63 yrs) has lived in Saint-Ouen, a northern suburb of Paris, since 1973, and that is due to be demolished in an effort to improve on security in the neighbourhood. She hopes to be re-lodged in one of the apartments currently under construction for the Olympic Village, where athletes will be housed during the Paris Olympics of 2024. Photo © Ed Alcock / MYOP 25/9/2023 L'immeuble de 129 appartements où Houria Ayadi (63 ans) vit depuis 1973 à Saint-Ouen, dans la banlieue nord de Paris, et qui doit être démoli pour améliorer la sécurité dans le quartier. Elle espère être relogée dans l'un des appartements actuellement en construction pour le village olympique, où seront logés les athlètes lors des Jeux olympiques de Paris en 2024. Photo © Ed Alcock / MYOP 25/9/2023

    Young Europeans: do you live with your parents?

    • 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

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