The NHS England power grab
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Labour has finally seized command of the health service
With the dissolution of NHS England, the government has the power – and the responsibility – to truly reform healthcare.
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Q&A: The hidden crisis in the NHS
The resignation of NHS England chief Amanda Pritchard represents a chance to clear out a broken managerial system.
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Can Kim Leadbeater justify her assisted dying bill?
The MP behind this ethically transformative piece of legislation answers her critics.
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The Do No Harm dilemma
What happens when a drug that can save lives could also ruin them?
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NHS England has no idea about GPs
Reform will only happen when the organisation confronts how lamentably wrong-headed it has been.
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Why the assassination of Brian Thompson ignited American politics
The UnitedHealthcare CEO is seen as part of a supposedly tyrannical oligarchy.
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Why MPs should vote to legalise assisted dying
Maintaining a cruel status quo is not a neutral choice.
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Healthcare: Wes Streeting’s to-do list
Expert analysis and comment from Andrew Dilnot, Bola Owolabi and Helen Morgan.
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How should the government tackle health inequalities?
Addressing the issue will be key to fulfilling its health mission.
Social care: Many words have been spoken, yet so little change has been delivered
Our services are in crisis - more help is needed and it is needed now.
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Weight-loss drugs and the supremacy of thinness
Anyone who has struggled with weight or eating disorders has dreamt of a magical fix. Now, it seems, we have…
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Caution should prevail on the assisted dying bill
It is far easier to give the right to an assisted death than to take it away.
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The menopause industry is a murky area of women’s healthcare
There is little evidence to back up claims made about symptoms, treatment and care.
By Labour’s first policy should be to break up the NHS
It would be dramatic and counter-intuitive – but rebuilding healthcare around the doctor-patient relationship is a vital reform.
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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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How to fund prevention and help save the NHS
Place-based outcomes partnerships can help the NHS move away from the sickness service model.
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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Inside the collapse of the Tavistock Centre
Why the world’s largest gender clinic for children is closing.
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