When survival is a popularity contest: the heartbreak of crowdfunding healthcare

A growing number of Britons are turning to online fundraising for essential treatment in a desperate, ‘Dickensian’ attempt to get around NHS shortfalls. But does it work?

Neglect by mental health trust led to Bristol student’s suicide

Coroner rules Avon and Wiltshire trust failed in the care of Natasha Abrahart

‘My tutor said it wasn’t a job for a man’: my journey from roofer to midwife

I’ve encountered sexism, but it’s an amazing job and an honour to support women giving birth

Call for poor and disabled to be given NHS fitness trackers

Vulnerable groups ‘could be left behind by technology revolution in medicine’, widening health inequality

My life as a midwife is nothing like it’s portrayed on TV

The smiling angels of Call the Midwife and hi-tech cheerleaders of documentaries create a simplistic and unhelpful impression

Sexual dysfunction cuts risk ‘leaving thousands in UK without help’

Women especially affected, with relationships and ability to conceive impacted, say experts

Molly Case, the NHS nurse who finds poetry on the wards

The student nurse whose impassioned poem about the NHS went viral talks about her new memoir

Health secretary wants NHS to roll out genetic tests to detect diseases

Matt Hancock hails ‘game-changer’ but critics raise racial bias and ‘fatalism’ concerns

Why the NHS wants patients to poo, pee and be sick

The health service is ditching words such as faeces, urine and vomit in favour of simpler language that everyone can understand

Thousands offered blood pressure drugs as threshold reduced

New guidelines propose drugs be offered if 10%, not 20%, risk of cardiovascular disease