Home births and hospital births in the UK: share your experiences

If you have given birth in the UK recently, either at home or in a hospital unit, we’d like to hear about your experience

Call to review baby death rates at more than 20 NHS trusts and boards

Inquiry urges those with higher than average stillbirth and newborn death rates to examine their maternity care to see if mistakes were made

Half of perinatal suicides by women ‘could be prevented by better care’

Study finds those who suffer severe mental health problems during or after pregnancy are let down by poor resources and failures to spot warning signs

The junior doctors’ strike is off: so who won? – cartoon

After the compromise comes the spin, and even without industrial action, the government can still claim there’s chaos

The nappy science gang who took on the NHS

It’s best to wash nappies in non-biological detergent, right? Wrong, as a citizen science project discovered when they challenged NHS advice on the subject

The NHS cuts that mean you can’t get the snip – cartoon

Public health budget cuts have left doctors offering condoms instead of vasectomies

Expect more teenage pregnancies and STIs as public health cuts kick in

Slicing money out of local prevention services is ‘economically nonsensical’, completely undermining the pledge to pump billions into the NHS

TV doctors back strike – cartoon

Holby City actors have expressed their support for the junior doctors’ threatened strike in December. Will the Timelord join them?

The Guardian view on homeopathy: the NHS shouldn’t pay

Editorial: Placebos can work magic. But that’s no argument for the health service to privilege a form of mock medicine that defies science and common sense

Homeopathy on prescription could be banned from NHS

Threat of judicial review has apparently forced ministers into launching a consultation to ensure funds are spent only on most effective treatments