The NHS backlog: What happens when waiting lists for healthcare grow too long?
A crisis of delayed surgery and diagnoses is rumbling beneath waiting time figures, with 4.5 million patients now thought to…
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How Michael Rosen returned from the brink of death
The children’s author on surviving Covid and the “chaos and contradiction” of the Conservative government’s pandemic crisis.
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The voice in your head
How a movement of people who hear voices is reshaping our understanding of mental illness – and consciousness itself.
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Horatio Clare on madness, misconceptions and the power of writing
The travel writer’s latest book, Heavy Light, documents his own psychotic breakdown and what he thinks we get wrong about treating…
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Europe’s AstraZeneca vaccine suspension is bad science that will cost lives
Blood clot fears are unfounded – stopping vaccination on such shaky grounds does terrible damage to anti-Covid efforts.
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For hundreds of thousands of people living in cold, damp and mould-ridden housing, this winter’s effects could outlast the pandemic.
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“It’s very hard to sleep”: Inside the Royal Free London hospital’s second wave – a year since its first Covid-19 case
A year ago, the north London hospital admitted its first coronavirus case. With critical care beds nearly full, its chief…
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