The NHS is underfunded. Even a former Tory health secretary sees it
The health service is in crisis – as Andrew Lansley’s comments on the screening that could have caught his cancer make plain, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
Man’s £54,000 NHS cancer bill raises ethical questions that can’t be ignored
Royal Marsden said treatment for Albert Thompson requires payment. It’s the first step in applying the same logic to all
Britain’s contaminated blood scandal: ‘I need them to admit they killed our son’
In the 1970s and 80s, 4,689 British haemophiliacs were treated with contaminated blood products. So far, more than half of them have died. The government knew there were risks involved. The patients didn’t. Will they ever get justice?
One day I was director in a mental health trust. The next I was suicidal
Depression sucked the life and soul out of me but I knew from my clinical experience that I could recover
Five ways to avoid becoming a victim of prescription drugs errors
A study has revealed that mistakes in the writing or dispensing of medicine can cost up to 22,000 people their lives every year. Here’s how to avoid being one of them
A new heart saved my life. Too many others don’t get that chance
An opt-out system for organ donation could improve the outcomes for critically ill people waiting for a heart transplant
Here’s what Americans need to know about the UK’s health system
Donald Trump’s criticisms of the NHS suggest he knows little about our system – or the one he presides over, says freelance journalist James Ball
Vaginal mesh review to investigate true scale of complications
Audit of NHS data to establish how many women have experienced problems following implant surgery
If I can come back from wanting to kill myself, so can others
Peer-to-peer support was the key to my recovery. Now I run a charity where I use my experience to help others with mental health problems
Down’s syndrome test could see condition disappear, C of E warns
Church says new NHS test could lead to more terminations and fewer people born with condition