Private health insurance sales surge amid NHS crisis
Ongoing crisis in public healthcare and economic recovery may have triggered first rise in seven years, but impeding Brexit means future is uncertain
Crisis, what NHS crisis? Theresa May must stop this denial
I’ve turned around three failing hospitals, and I believe the NHS will keel over unless ministers start to address its problems and stop blaming GPs and patients
High-quality abortion services come at a price, so let’s pay it
Abortion care charities now have to compete for contracts – and NHS cost-cutting means the cheapest service is almost always commissioned
Samer Nashef: ‘Understanding the healthcare system is a matter of life or death’
The cardiac specialist reveals how what really goes on behind the operating door inspired his book The Naked Surgeon
Kids on the Edge review – an antidote to the hysteria around gender identity
The first of Peter Beard’s three-part series looking at children’s mental health visits an NHS identity development clinic and steadily dismantles inaccurate fears around what is clearly a complex process
Targets matter – because a day with cancer worries feels like a year
New research reveals that more than 130,000 people were not seen or treated when they needed to be. The only solution is a properly funded NHS
NHS to offer safer Down’s syndrome test to pregnant women
Non-invasive prenatal test allows screening without risk of miscarriage but critics fear it could lead to an increase in terminations
NHS figures show ‘shocking’ rise in self-harm among young
Upward trend is more pronounced among girls and is evidence of increased social pressures on children, say experts
Figures reveal huge inequalities in health and longevity across UK
ONS report shows disparities largest in England and smallest in Northern Ireland, while Scotland has the worst longevity
Westminster: wealth, opulence and socially isolated new mothers
In an area where wealth and poverty sit side by side, a maternity project is tackling loneliness and mental health problems