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Society

  • An older man sitting on the edge of a bed holding a cane

    Hospital discharges limiting home care in England, councils say

  • Michael Towers - ADHD - Longread

    ‘A diagnosis can sweep away guilt’: the delicate art of treating ADHD

    The long read:For children with ADHD, getting the help they need depends on being correctly diagnosed. As a doctor, I have seen how tricky and frustrating a process that can be
  • A close-up of an elderly man holding a walking stick

    Fifth of UK hospices cutting services amid funding crisis, finds report

    Sector says ‘too many people dying in avoidable pain’, with soaring numbers being pushed back into the NHS
  • The exterior of Feltham young offender institute

    Feltham YOI found to be most violent prison in England and Wales

  • Child works on laptop

    ADHD digital test approved for NHS use in England and Wales

  • Silhouetted male pushing an anonymous person in a wheelchair along a seafront as the sun sets behind them

    England’s healthcare watchdog apologises over ‘new regulatory approach’

  • Research by NHS Providers shows that the NHS is struggling to cope with rising demand for children and young people’s care.

    Long delays to NHS care for children in England ‘creating forgotten generation’

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Interviews & opinion

  • Eva Wiseman

    We need more than trompe-l’oeil to fix our housing crisis

    Eva Wiseman
  • Weathered-looking white woman wearing pink and blue sunhat holds up bright orange piece of paper, with tents on green grass behind her.

    ‘Terrifying and dystopian’: the dark realities of the supreme court’s homelessness decision

  • Tony Sinclair, who formerly lived in a tent outside a hospital in central London

    ‘My state pension was £880 – and my rent was £1,000’: how a 70-year-old man became homeless in Britain

  • Marjolein Robertson standing in front of a wall hanging with colourful circular pattern.

    The period that almost killed me: ‘My mam was told, if you take her home, she won’t last the night’

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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

  • Wes Streeting leaves Downing Street after attending a cabinet meeting: he is seen in a head and shoulders view in front of black iron railings on which England flags are hung as bunting. He is a young man with short fair hair and is smiling; he wears a dark blue jacket, pale blue shirt and dark tie with red horizontal stripes, and holds a red folder under his arm.

    Wes Streeting
    Wes Streeting expected to tell parliament why he backs puberty blockers ban

  • A mugshot of Lucy Letby.

    Lucy Letby
    The Lucy Letby trial and the limits of expert opinion

    Letters:Jeff Rooker,Ivan BumenthhalandSimon Lauris Hudsonrespond to an investigation into the medical and statistical evidence given in the former nurse’s court cases
  • An orange car and a man driving a donkey and cart pass a poster reading, 'Don't let the razorblade be our nation's symbol.'

    Global development
    MPs in the Gambia vote to uphold ban on female genital mutilation

    Campaigners applaud decision not to repeal law in west African country with one of the highest rates of FGM

  • Bird flu
    Four Colorado poultry workers diagnosed with bird flu

  • Opinion
    Beards are alpha, ‘rat boys’ are in – and the rules of masculinity are as baffling as ever

    Tom Usher

  • How to build a better life
    Face your anger and let it out. It’s the only way to stay healthy

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

  • (FILES) This file photo taken on March 18, 2011 shows a woman, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, walking in a corridor in a retirement house in Angervilliers, eastern France. For decades now, soaring population growth and ageing rates have been forecast to ignite a global explosion of Alzheimer's, the memory- and freedom-robbing disease afflicting mainly 65-plussers. But an unexpected, and hopeful, trend may be emerging. / AFP PHOTO / Sébastien BOZONSEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images

    ‘The grief and loss is hard to bear’: the cruelty of Alzheimer’s disease

  • The Children's Inquiry at Southwark Playhouse Elephant.

    The Children’s Inquiry review – exhilarating political musical about kids in care

  • Forms for applying for carer's allowance.

    I’ve been denied carer’s allowance for eight months after I owned up to a job

  • Keir Starmer holds a news conference after his first cabinet meeting on 6 July 2024.

    The Observer view on the new Labour government: a fine start but still a mountain to climb

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Central & local government

  • Labour Cuts

    We are public sector workers – this is how more cuts would wreck our NHS, courts, councils and universities

    Emma Vincent Miller, Catherine Fletcher, Minesh Parekh, Rachel Clarke and Anonymous
  • Stuart Weir, journalist and democracy campaigner

    Stuart Weir obituary

  • Michael Heseltine, former Conservative deputy leader, in Liverpool.

    Much of Michael Heseltine’s advice to Angela Rayner is good, but he is wrong about local councils

  • A black and white picture of Ruth Perry attached to a fence

    Inquiry into headteacher’s suicide says ‘macho culture’ of inspections must end

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Voluntary sector

  • Ampleforth College

    Ampleforth inquiry finds alleged serious abuse against pupils in last 10 years

  • A prison officer walks across an empty landing of a prison

    Labour must avoid release of high-risk offenders in prison plans, charity warns

  • A multicoloured screenprint of Kate Moss

    Top UK auction house told to stop taking buyer’s premium for charity sales

  • Oslo 19861125 Leah Levin i Oslo for å snakke om barnearbeid. Foto: Svein E. Furulund / Aftenposten / NTB scanpix Fysisk loc. 77.00

    Leah Levin obituary

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Housing

  • Kwajo Tweneboa

    The secret social housing scandal: when your parent dies – and you are evicted in days

    Kwajo Tweneboa
    • Waterloo Sunset.

      Waterloo Sunset review – inside an oasis of affordable living

    • A man talks on his mobile phone as he walks a deserted street backdropped by newly built apartment buildings in Seseña

      ‘Huge scars’: novelist finds a fractured Spain in its half-built houses

    • King Charles at the state opening of parliament

      Housebuilding, railways, Lords reform: what to expect in the king’s speech

    • Durham Castle overlooking the River Wear

      For better and worse, Durham’s student population has an impact on locals

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