Doctors knew my son was suicidal. I should have been told before he died

I was denied the chance to be there for my son when he needed me the most

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