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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.
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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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The hypocrisy of Rishi Sunak’s smoking ban
I stand by my belief in bodily autonomy, despite it putting me in a venn diagram with Nigel Farage.
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As personal heart monitors, smart watches are not so smart
The popularity of wearables is muddying health data and fuelling an epidemic of scans and anxiety.
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Kevin Fenton: “Racism is a major public health challenge”
The president of the Faculty of Public Health on the legacies of Covid-19, structural discrimination, and why well-being goes beyond…
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Keeping people healthy should be at the top of the political agenda
For decades, politicians have talked about preventing illness – now they need to do something about it.
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Toxic lead pipes are yet another instance of water companies’ environmental insolvency
Privatisation has led to the fleecing of customers.
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Letter of the week: Our carbon dependency
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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How Big Tech made us screen addicts
Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired argues that smart devices are engineered to keep our children hooked. Can we hold the industry to…
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Why are women still paying for HRT?
The government has made hormone replacement therapy cheaper, but any cost exacerbates the gender health gap.
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Vapes aren’t enough to stop people smoking
The government should be funding cessation services and cracking down on Big Tobacco rather than fixating on e-cigarettes.
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Prescription charges are making people sicker, research shows
Nearly a third of people who skipped medication because of NHS costs over the past year now have additional health…
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Social media is taking a dangerous toll on teenage girls
The evidence is now clear: smartphones are the major cause of the mental illness epidemic among young women.
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Steve Barclay brought a private healthcare lobbyist into government
Lionel Zetter continued to hold two roles in the private sector while working for Barclay in the Cabinet Office and…
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The Policy Ask with Tina Woods: “Digitalisation should not trump doctors’ expertise”
The preventative health expert on NHS bureaucracy, healthy ageing and what the UK could learn from Singapore.
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Less than a third of ethnic minority women attend cervical screenings
Research shows minority groups in the UK are less likely to take vital cancer and sexual health tests.
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Focus on prevention to keep the NHS true to its soul
On the 75th anniversary of the UK’s national healthcare system, we must ensure it stays true to its founding ethos.
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The NHS is “a sickness service, not a health service,” say MPs
The Health and Social Care Committee wants the government to prioritise prevention alongside the NHS backlog.
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Why does nothing work in the UK anymore?
From GP appointments to trains, everything feels broken.
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Seven swans not swimming: how bird flu came to Christmas
A family of London swans offer both warning and hope in the face of an overlooked crisis.
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