Sick Britain: how economic inactivity has surged
A record 2.5 million people are not looking for work because they suffer from long-term sickness.
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NHS backlog tracker: How long are hospital waiting lists where you live?
The New Statesman tracks delays in NHS treatment in England by postcode.
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Can anyone save the NHS?
Short-term sticking plasters rather than long-term healing may be too tempting for Rishi Sunak’s unpopular government.
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The scourge of Long Covid
More than half a million Britons have had the post-Covid condition for more than two years.
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A night in a Kyiv bunker, palliative care in a war zone, and another chance for Jeremy Hunt
I recently visited Ukraine to help train doctors, and witnessed first-hand Putin’s brazen desire to rain terror on civilians.
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Government failing to address “deadly issue” of air pollution
The Public Accounts Committee has called for a new approach to tackling poor air quality.
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Will we soon have vaccines for cancer?
BioNTech is attempting to deploy the vaccination technology it developed for Covid as a weapon against malignancy.
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Sally Davies: “Anti-microbial resistance could kill us before the climate crisis does”
The former chief medical officer for England warns about the threat AMR poses to humanity – and why we need…
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