Health

Streeting urges doctors to ‘stop sabre-rattling’ and work with him to fix NHS

The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has urged doctors to work with the government on its plans to change the NHS and to “stop sabre-rattling” on industrial action over pay.Streeting...

Painful memories of the struggle to breastfeed | Letters

Reading Niamh Campbell’s article on breastfeeding brought back painful memories for me (‘Like a cheese grater raking across...

Kate’s recovery is great news – but be wary of a soft-focus view of life after chemo | Hilary Osborne

I am trying to imagine what a film announcing my recovery from cancer would have looked like. Probably...

Covid inquiry: Johnson and Hancock accused of making ‘false’ NHS claims

Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock have been criticised by bereaved families at the Covid inquiry for trying to...

Imagine your friend survives a catastrophic accident. What do you do? This is what I learned

What’s the best way to support a friend who has had a life-shattering, traumatic accident? I didn’t have...

Tory health reforms left UK open to Covid calamity, says top doctor’s report

Britain was hit far harder by the Covid-19 pandemic than other developed countries because the NHS had been “seriously weakened” by disastrous government policies...

UK MPs urged to give up freebies from tobacco, alcohol and junk food firms

MPs are being urged to stop accepting freebies to sports and cultural events from tobacco, alcohol and junk food firms because their products cause...

Will Labour resist the ‘killer tactics’ of industry’s enemies of public health?

Illness, disease and death can be the result of bad luck, genetic factors or people’s lifestyles – whether someone smokes, drinks a lot or...

US repeating Covid mistakes with bird flu as spread raises alarm, experts say

The US is making the same mistakes with the H5N1 bird flu virus as with Covid, even as the highly pathogenic avian influenza continues...

Suicide rates in England and Wales reach highest level since 1999

Ministers have been urged to treat suicide as a public health crisis after the rate at which people killed themselves in England and Wales...