Profit, not patients: the risks of private medicine
Ultimately, private providers have their shareholders’ interests at heart, not their patients’. A GP and celebrated writer shares his experiences of how the healthcare system works
Junior NHS doctors have it easy now, or do they? – cartoon
Why older doctors complaining about a possible strike by their younger colleagues might be in need of a reality check
The Guardian view on endometriosis: a silent source of unnecessary misery
Editorial: Not life-threatening, but life-altering: the disease that neither its victims nor medicine know enough about
Feel unwell? Call the fire brigade – cartoon
A pilot scheme is asking firefighters visiting homes to check on smoke alarms to do health checks at the same time. Who does that leave to put out the fires?
Body image: MPs to consider ban on ultra-thin catwalk models
Caroline Nokes to launch parliamentary investigation into industry after 30,000 people sign petition demanding fashion week health checks
The unlikely saviour of the NHS: drug-resistant gonorrhoea
The epic challenges of the post-antibiotic age will take the debate beyond the well-worn issues of obesity and old age
What does Jeremy Corbyn’s victory mean for the NHS? – cartoon
The Labour leader’s landslide victory can only be good news for overworked doctors … or can it?
How hard work cures all illness
Dean Burnett: Iain Duncan Smith claimed that hard work helps treat illness. Scientifically speaking, he’s right. Sort of. Well, not quite.
The Secret Doctor: people would use the NHS less if they knew the true price tags
A survey shows people vastly underestimate NHS costs. If they understood the real expenditure, they might use the service more responsibly
My wife’s £10,000 bill for cancer treatment makes me appreciate the NHS
Faced with the huge cost of vital healthcare in South Africa, I’ve realised how lucky we are to have the NHS in the UK. We must fight to protect it