Bradford puts money on libraries to boost city’s health

£700,000 could be diverted from Yorkshire council’s wellbeing budget to offset library cuts

New mothers in England to receive health check six weeks after giving birth

Campaigners welcome move to assess women for physical and mental wellbeing

Health secretary to investigate allegations of women denied epidurals

Matt Hancock ‘concerned’ by reports of pain relief refused during childbirth by NHS trusts

How might A&E departments without targets work? Look to sexual health clinics

Accident and emergency makes the headlines. Meanwhile, under-reported services are collapsing through lack of funding, says the Guardian’s Polly Toynbee

How to save the NHS… by five bestselling medical memoirists

With medical memoirs now the hottest ticket in publishing, we asked five acclaimed authors for their views on the crisis in the NHS

Blue spaces: why time spent near water is the secret of happiness

Coastal environments have been shown to improve our health, body and mind. So should doctors start issuing nature-based prescriptions?

‘It’s in complete crisis’ – architects form trade union amid fury and despair over exploitation

Low pay, shocking hours and cut-throat competition spell misery in a profession with few safeguards. We meet the young architects who are fighting back

DIY drugs: should hospitals make their own medicine?

The long read: If pharmaceutical companies rapidly inflate the price of their products, is there an alternative? One Dutch chemist thinks so

How putting NHS staff first is making hospitals better

Yoga, pilates and Dragons’ Den-style contests are among a host of innovations that are turning around failing trusts

I look at my laughter lines and mutter: ‘Nothing’s that funny’

According to Iain Duncan Smith I’ll still be expected to work when I am just one giant stiffened joint