The patient is dying

George Monbiot: The fate of an eye hospital in Oxford is symptomatic of the stealthy privatisation of the NHS.

The long wait

Anna Kiernan's sister Sadie is one of 5,500 people waiting for an organ transplant in the UK. This is her story.

Sexual healing

Clinics which treat STDs are chronically underfunded. But some find it convenient to blame the small number of refugees who use them, writes Sarah Boseley.