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  • Kevin Campbell

    Trust raises concerns over hospital treatment of footballer Kevin Campbell

  • Archie Routledge and his dad Mark watch a film together whilst in GNCH

    Nine-year-old boy youngest in UK to undergo rare pancreatic surgery

    Newcastle surgeons remove Archie Routledge’s pancreas while transplanting insulin-producing cells into his liver
  • Eleanor Rathbone, the independent candidate for East Toxteth, Liverpool.

    ‘100% feminist’: how Eleanor Rathbone invented child benefit – and changed women’s lives for ever

    She was an MP and author with a formidable reputation, fighting for the rights of women and refugees, and opposing the appeasement of Hitler. Why isn’t she better known today?
  • Exterior of a relatively modern-looking hospital

    Could Labour use public-private projects to fix England’s hospitals?

  • An illustration of an eight-floor white modern rectangular hospital building

    NHS leader calls for partnership with private sector to build new hospitals

  • An inhaler for the administration of chloroform or ether, circa 1848.

    Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world

  • Revellers shelter under a tree at Worthy farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury music festival

    The summer of green music festivals

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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

  • FILE - Dairy cattle feed at a farm on March 31, 2017, near Vado, N.M. Another Michigan dairy worker has been diagnosed with bird flu, the third human case associated with an outbreak in U.S. dairy cows, health officials said Thursday, May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

    Bird flu
    US reports fourth case of bird flu in humans

  • Linda in the laundry room, alongside a picture of linens

    Photography
    ‘We all need a place to hide’: NHS workers take a breather – in pictures

    From wildflower retreats and Novid rooms to locking yourself in a disabled toilet, hospital staff reveal where they go when they need a moment’s peace
  • Photo of Pippa with her mum Annah White.

    New South Wales
    Two-year-old’s sepsis death in hospital was ‘totally avoidable’, grieving parents tell NSW inquest

    Pippa White’s parents will ‘spend the rest of our lives advocating to stop this from ever happening again’, coroner’s court hears

  • Science
    ‘Spermageddon’: is male fertility really in crisis? – podcast

  • Abortion
    Arizona proposal to protect abortion rights in state constitution advances

  • Medical research
    Weight-loss jabs may be linked to condition that can cause blindness, study finds

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

  • Larry, the Downing Street cat, on step outside No 10.

    New prime minister will face a range of urgent priorities from day one

  • Two children in rehearsal hold up signs with the word 'all rise'

    ‘A lot of stereotypes to break’: Children’s Inquiry musical explores life in care in Britain

  • Rory Kinnear

    I saw my mum forced to fight and cajole as a carer. When will politicians end the conspiracy of silence on adult social care?

    Rory Kinnear
  • Kirankumar Rathod sitting on his bed.

    Migrant nurse wins legal boost in unfair dismissal claim against UK firm

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Central & local government

  • A person stands by a stone plinth with a crack in it next to some other pieces of stone beside a cattle grid and gateway

    Listed Derbyshire stone pillar knocked down for 12th time in decade

  • Driving instructor Rachel Newland

    ‘They have you over a barrel’: how scammers, touts and bots took over driving tests

  • Keir Starmer in a hospital with a crowd of health workers behind him.

    ‘Unambitious’, ‘careful’, ‘authentic’: what public sector workers make of Keir Starmer

  • people walking their dogs at Hook Moor Wind Farm, near Leeds

    Give local authorities the power to achieve net zero

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Voluntary sector

  • A CUSTODY OFFICER TALKS TO AN OFFENDER BEFORE A FOOTBALL

    Invest in people, not in building more prisons, to cut reoffending

  • Hannah Ingram-Moore with Captain Tom Moore in April 2020.

    Captain Tom’s daughter and her husband banned from being charity trustees

  • Farmer and Fell runner Joss Naylor running up Wasdale with courage determination in the Lake District Cumbria<br>AJGF81 Farmer and Fell runner Joss Naylor running up Wasdale with courage determination in the Lake District Cumbria

    Joss Naylor obituary

  • Mark Tilling, the headteacher of High Tunstall College of Science in Hartlepool, with some of the free beds

    The Hartlepool headteacher trying to find beds for 10,000 sleep-deprived pupils

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Housing

  • A small town garden

    The Guardian view on gardens: needed for council homes, not just stately homes

    • Julian (white tshirt) Alex (female, glasses), Patrick (suit jacket, David (black tshirt) and James. Residents of Ice Wharf basin for a story on rising mooring fees. London. Photograph by David Levene 4/7/24

      London houseboat residents fear rise in mooring fees will price them out

    • Diyora Shadijanova

      Britain’s decrepit homes cause three big problems. Luckily, this green policy could fix them all

      Diyora Shadijanova
    • Richard Sennett

      Labour’s housing policies have already been tried – and have failed. Here is the radical solution

      Richard Sennett
    • Young couple looking in estate agent's window

      Private rents in Great Britain hit record high, data shows

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