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  • Someone sealing up packing box

    Forced home moves cost renters over half a billion pounds a year

  • Preparing for surgery in an operating theatre in a hospital in the UK

    Private health insurance market grows by £385m in a year amid NHS crisis

    Demand for private treatment booms as NHS waiting lists remain long, while more people also sign up for dental cover
  • Close-up of woman smoking a cigarette

    Smoking among middle-class women in England up by 25% in 10 years – study

    Rate for better-off 18 to 45s rose from 12% to 15% but fell 24% for working class women while proportion of male smokers was stable
  • A doctor writing a prescription

    Dementia: experts urge doctors to reduce antipsychotic prescriptions

  • A female carer holds the hand of an elderly woman in a wheelchair

    DWP warns carers they could face greater penalties if they appeal against fines

  • Rose Chitseko

    ‘Injustice’: 92-year-old with dementia told by DWP to repay £7k in disability allowance

  • A dark corridor in temporary housing accommodation supplied to a mother and children.

    ‘Rat bites and chronic asthma’: schools on frontline of UK housing crisis

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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

  • Close-up of a person smoking a cigarette

    Today in Focus
    Can Rishi Sunak create a smoke-free generation?

  • Pharmacy shelves

    Drugs
    Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns

    Some shortages are so serious they are imperilling the health and even lives of patients with serious illnesses, pharmacy bosses say
  • Holland & Barrett women’s health coach Jayda St Louis (left) speaks to customer Anoja Kirubalarajah inside the Holland & Barrett store at Marble Arch

    Retail industry
    Holland & Barrett trains 600 women’s health coaches to give in-store support

    Retailer says it is filling advice gap on subjects such as menstruation and hormones amid wellness-focused revamp

  • Abortion
    Arizona Republicans again block effort to repeal 1864 near-total abortion ban

  • Parkinson's disease
    Jeremy Paxman’s take on Parkinson’s disease is far too bleak

  • Health and fitness holidays
    The longevity vacation: why bar-hopping holidays are out and extreme wellness breaks are in

  • Opinion
    I’m 17 and haven’t seen a dentist for four years. This is life in England’s NHS dental deserts

    Beth Riding
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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

  • Terri White

    Sure Start could have changed everything for my family. Labour must be brave – and revitalise it

    Terri White
  • Woman opening an empty wallet

    Unpaid carers lose out in benefits gap

  • Marcus Hanlin smiling, taking a mug of tea from someone's hand

    Man died after swallowing conkers at care home, inquest hears

  • Aerial view of Blackpool

    One in 52 Blackpool children in care as poverty soars in north of England

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Central & local government

  • Kemi Badenoch leaving Downing Street

    Kemi Badenoch to oppose smoking ban in blow to Sunak’s authority

  • View of the war memorial on Ham Hill over the Somerset countryside in the south west of England UK

    How a new model of governance could empower small councils

  • Postal votes being counted

    How to ensure your postal votes are on time despite unreliable Royal Mail

  • New homes are being built in Little London, near Tadley, Hampshire, where the are few amenities apart from one pub.

    Little London: village with link to 1665 plague fears new exodus from capital

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Voluntary sector

  • A pensioner's hand in front of an electric fire

    Leak reveals Tory plan to cut cold weather cash for disabled people

  • Gaza auction composite: Olivia Colman, Paul mescal, Susan Sarandon

    Susan Sarandon, Olivia Colman and Paul Mescal join star donors of Cinema for Gaza auction

  • Crew onboard an RNLI lifeboat pick up people in an inflatable boat who were travelling across the English Channel.

    RNLI says volunteers saved 355 lives last year, with London stations the busiest

  • The RSA building in London

    Staff and bosses at Royal Society of Arts accuse each other of threats and lies in pay row

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Housing

  • Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Angela Rayner visit a distillery to learn more about the importance of the industry and to talk about Labour’s New Deal for Working People. Diageo’s Glenkinchie Distillery, Pencaitland, Tranent East Lothian, Scotland UK 02/02/2024 © COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY See details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution. A22U4Y, sgealbadh, A22R4S

    Tory ‘attack dog’ reheats failed ploy used against Starmer to go for Rayner

    • French gendarmes stand by as people leave the squat in an abandoned bus company headquarters

      Hundreds evicted from France’s biggest squat months before Paris Olympics

    • A person reacts as their possessions are seized during a sweep of an encampment in Los Angeles in January 2021.

      Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps

    • To let signs

      Inaction on no-fault evictions blamed for thousands facing homelessness

    • Exterior of the York and Albany

      Squatters take over Gordon Ramsay hotel and pub in London

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