Dan Poulter: “I voted for policies that I would not now vote for”
The doctor and Tory defector Dan Poulter on the state of the NHS and where his former party went wrong.
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What we must learn from the infected blood scandal
This failure and its cover-up reveals the harm done by the NHS’s “institutional defensiveness”.
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The curse of climate brain
Global warming is not only destroying our environment; it is altering the way we think and act – for the…
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Data can lead us to the truth or, as Rishi Sunak prefers, distort it
The Prime Minister’s cynical attack on “sick-note culture” was a missed chance to investigate the rise in long-term illness.
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Will bird flu be the next pandemic?
While attention was focused on Covid, a new variant of avian influenza emerged: one that can infect many different species…
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With referrals for ADHD, autistic spectrum disorder and other conditions swamping the NHS, we need to rethink medicine’s role in…
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The Cass Review into children’s gender care should shame us all
Why was the prescription of puberty blockers to distressed children allowed to continue for so long?
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The trauma ward
Each year thousands of women suffer the nightmare of a traumatic birth. I was one of them.
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