‘The ketamine blew my mind’: can psychedelics cure addiction and depression?

This week sees the opening of the first UK high-street clinic offering psychedelic-assisted therapy. Could popping psilocybin be the future of mental healthcare?

‘I’ve been called Satan’: Dr Rachel Clarke on facing abuse in the Covid crisis

As well as fighting to keep Covid patients alive, NHS staff are now battling a surge in abuse and denial in the second wave. Dr Rachel Clarke on how she is coping – and what gives her hope

Rachel Clarke: ‘NHS staff are burning with frustration and grief at this second wave’

The palliative care doctor and author on a year of Covid in UK hospitals and her hopes for the vaccine

Tom Templeton: ‘I suspect doctors have realised how therapeutic it can be to write books’

The former Observer writer and now GP talks about his new book, 34 Patients, and the challenges he has faced during the pandemic

UK tourists who need routine treatment to be covered in EU for 12 months

British government says people entitled to NHS care who need treatment such as dialysis can apply

Covid: NHS hospital trusts told to rethink pregnant women partner ban

Fresh guidance issued after growing outrage about women being forced to go through labour alone

The natural birth cultists care little about leaving women in agony

The horrors found by the Ockenden report are not alas confined to one maternity unit

Distressed mother separated from breastfed baby for days during hospital stay

Hospital admits breaking own Covid policy as mothers like Charlotte Jones are being needlessly kept apart from their babies

Lives of mothers and babies left in danger at Nottingham University hospitals trust – report

Care Quality Commission downgrades trust’s maternity services to inadequate

Mothers needlessly separated from babies under UK hospital Covid rules

Restrictions are causing trauma and increasing risk of physical and mental health problems, warn doctors and charities