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Duty of Candour In NHS 'Not Working', Says Inquiry Chair
Duty of Candour In NHS "Not Working", Says Inquiry Chair
Health
The NHS is failing to be honest with patients when things go wrong, according to a former chair of investigations into preventable deaths on maternity wards.
'All Peopled Out': Labour MP Cat Eccles On Being Autistic In Westminster
Health
"All Peopled Out": Labour MP Cat Eccles On Being Autistic In Westminster
Public Likely To Comply With Lockdown Measures To Halt New Pandemic, Poll Suggests
Health
Public Likely To Comply With Lockdown Measures To Halt New Pandemic, Poll Suggests
UK Google Interview: We Need Data Centres And Grid Connections, Fast
Health
UK Google Interview: We Need Data Centres And Grid Connections, Fast
Abolishing NHS England Will Not Work, Says Former Health Secretary Behind Its Creation
Health
Abolishing NHS England Will Not Work, Says Former Health Secretary Behind Its Creation
Abolishing NHS England Became 'Inevitable' – But What Happens Next?
Health
Abolishing NHS England Became "Inevitable" – But What Happens Next?
The Secret Social Worker: 'It Feels Relentless And The Gaps Are Just Too Big For Us To Fill'
Health
The Secret Social Worker: 'It Feels Relentless And The Gaps Are Just Too Big For Us To Fill'
Opinion
Self-care: an untapped resource Partner content
Health
By Kenvue
Self-care: an untapped resource
Our challenge to the House of Lords: It’s time to make smoking obsolete Partner content
Health
By British Heart Foundation
Our challenge to the House of Lords: It’s time to make smoking obsolete
Experts are divided over six-month safeguard for assisted dying
Health
By Katherine Sleeman and Sam Ahmedzai
Experts are divided over six-month safeguard for assisted dying
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Former Defence Minister Says Homes Must Stockpile Candles, Radios And Iodine Tablets To Prepare For Attacks
Former Defence Minister Says Homes Must Stockpile Candles, Radios And Iodine Tablets To Prepare For Attacks
Communities
How Keir Starmer Keeps His Massive Parliamentary Party In Line
How Keir Starmer Keeps His Massive Parliamentary Party In Line
Political parties
MPs Say They Will Not Be Intimidated By New Russian Sanctions
MPs Say They Will Not Be Intimidated By New Russian Sanctions
Foreign affairs
Mark Francois: I Hope Trump Will Now See Putin For The Murderous Tyrant He Is
Mark Francois: I Hope Trump Will Now See Putin For The Murderous Tyrant He Is
Defence
Space Is A Growing Battlefield. Can The UK Lead The Way?
Space Is A Growing Battlefield. Can The UK Lead The Way?
Defence
Council Leaders Say Reform's Cost Cutting Plans Are Detached From Reality
Council Leaders Say Reform's Cost Cutting Plans Are Detached From Reality
Communities
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The Secret Social Worker: 'It Feels Relentless And The Gaps Are Just Too Big For Us To Fill'
Health
The Secret Social Worker: 'It Feels Relentless And The Gaps Are Just Too Big For Us To Fill'
A mental health social worker takes us through a typical day in the job, from disappointing patients to dealing with abuse and threats
How to resolve the modern care dilemma: drop the obsession with GDP
Health
By Miriam Cates
How to resolve the modern care dilemma: drop the obsession with GDP
Resolving the modern care dilemma means putting family at the heart of the economy, writes Miriam Cates. But the challenges to implementing this conservative plan for care come from all sides – including the ‘ultra-online right’
Stephen Kinnock: 'I have a really personal understanding of what people are going through'
Health
By Sienna Rodgers
Stephen Kinnock: 'I have a really personal understanding of what people are going through'
Stephen Kinnock is responsible for tackling one of the biggest challenges the government faces: social care. The health minister talks to Sienna Rodgers about charging reforms, professionalising the workforce and his family’s experiences with care
Health & Care news
Lords Move To Overturn 'Unjustifiable' Government Decision To End At-Home Abortion Services
Health
Lords Move To Overturn "Unjustifiable" Government Decision To End At-Home Abortion Services
The Conservative peer Baroness Sugg has tabled an amendment to the Health and Care Bill, seeking to make permanent the temporary at-home early abortion services that were brought in during the pandemic.
This government cannot continue to ignore the crisis in our ambulance services
Health
By Helen Morgan MP
This government cannot continue to ignore the crisis in our ambulance services
At 6pm last Friday evening, the headteacher of a local secondary school contacted me in desperation.
Minister Who Resigned Over Covid Loans Says He “Wasn’t Aware Of Full Horror” Of Fraud Until Much Later
Coronavirus
Minister Who Resigned Over Covid Loans Says He “Wasn’t Aware Of Full Horror” Of Fraud Until Much Later
The former Treasury minister who resigned over the government’s failure to tackle fraud in the Covid loan schemes has called on the board of the British Business Bank to resign.
BANT celebrates 25 years as the leading professional organisation for Nutritional Therapy Practitioners Partner content
Health
By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
BANT celebrates 25 years as the leading professional organisation for Nutritional Therapy Practitioners
Setting the standard of excellence in science-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine
Menopause: Career-pause for women?
Health
By Marilyn Wright
Menopause: Career-pause for women?
A lack of support to help manage menopause symptoms in the workplace is ruining women’s careers, with many feeling forced to forego promotion or even leave their jobs. But the narrative is shifting. Employers are realising doing nothing could be damaging not just for the women affected but for business too, as Marilyn Wright reports
Reducing excess salt in our food would be a much-needed triumph for UK public health
Health
By Graham MacGregor CBE
Reducing excess salt in our food would be a much-needed triumph for UK public health
Earlier this year, evidence emerged from South Africa that mandatory salt targets resulted in a huge fall in salt intake, even amongst the most deprived groups.
The Government should treat betting like booze - not like tobacco Partner content
Health
By Betting and Gaming Council
The Government should treat betting like booze - not like tobacco
After more than a year of waiting for the outcome of the Gambling Review, and with the Government changing its ministers more times than Watford change football managers, it strikes me that the debate has boiled down to this: should betting be treated like tobacco, which is inherently and universally damaging to all, or should it be treated more like alcohol, something millions of people do and where the vast majority are able to enjoy it responsibly, but where sadly a small minority can have a problem and, in the most extreme and terrible cases, it can be an addiction?
Covid-19 Inquiry To Look At UK’s Pandemic Preparedness And Government's Health, Care And Economic Responses
Coronavirus
Covid-19 Inquiry To Look At UK’s Pandemic Preparedness And Government's Health, Care And Economic Responses
The draft terms of reference for the long-awaited public inquiry into the UK’s response to Covid-19 have been published today.
Let’s Mark International Women’s Day by Improving Cancer Screening for UK Women Partner content
Health
By Hologic
Let’s Mark International Women’s Day by Improving Cancer Screening for UK Women
We must make cancer screening accessible to all women in the UK by ensuring preventative healthcare is a priority.
Women should not be forgotten in the UK HIV response
Health
By Baroness Barker and Florence Eshalomi
Women should not be forgotten in the UK HIV response
Women make up a third of people living with HIV, with an estimated 31,000 women living with HIV in the UK. As a group, women do not experience the best HIV outcomes.
The UK must stop purchasing healthcare equipment from states accused of genocide
Health
By Lord Blencathra, Baroness Kennedy QC, Baroness Smith and Lord Alton
The UK must stop purchasing healthcare equipment from states accused of genocide
We have laid an all-party amendment which will shortly be considered at the report stage of the Health and Care Bill. Our proposal is designed to ensure that future NHS procurement policies take into account the origins of the vast quantities of goods which are purchased at huge public expense and some of which originate in states accused by our Foreign Secretary and the House of Commons of committing genocide.
The Power of Partnerships: helping individuals make a difference in their communities Partner content
Environment
By Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
The Power of Partnerships: helping individuals make a difference in their communities
I’m always emphasising the incredible power of individuals in making a difference in their communities and the important impact that every single volunteer’s contribution can have. However, I believe we can truly shift the dial when we work together.
We should use our 3.5 million unused Covid vaccines to help vaccinate the world
Coronavirus
By Preet Kaur Gill MP
We should use our 3.5 million unused Covid vaccines to help vaccinate the world
With restrictions on travel beginning to lift, we can start to think about booking foreign holidays for Easter.
We are desperate to return to normal life - but we must also be safe
Coronavirus
By Baroness Brinton
We are desperate to return to normal life - but we must also be safe
The Prime Minister’s statement last week, has left the “most vulnerable*” bemused and worried.
We must change the failing approach to ill health
Health
By Grace Everest
We must change the failing approach to ill health
The UK’s health looks increasingly frayed and unequal. Even prior to the pandemic, people were living more years in poor health, life expectancy gains had stalled, and inequalities were widening.
Partner content
Health
By British Safety Council
Vital we all remain cautious and allow staff time to recover from Covid - British Safety Council
Commenting on the Government’s announcement that all Covid restrictions will end in England on Thursday 24 February and free mass testing will cease from 1 April, Mike Robinson, Chief Executive of British Safety Council said:
Boris Johnson Announces End To Free Covid Tests For General Public From April
Coronavirus
Boris Johnson Announces End To Free Covid Tests For General Public From April
The government is scrapping all legal coronavirus restrictions in England from Thursday and free tests won’t be available to the general public after the end of March.
Labour Say Free Testing Could Continue If The Government Had Not Spent Billions On 'Dodgy PPE'
Coronavirus
Labour Say Free Testing Could Continue If The Government Had Not Spent Billions On "Dodgy PPE"
Free Covid-19 testing for the general population could be extended if the government had not wasted so much money during the pandemic on poor equipment and loans, Labour has claimed.
Confusion Over Covid Policy Forces Boris Johnson To Delay Sign Off Of New Rules At The Last Minute
Health
Confusion Over Covid Policy Forces Boris Johnson To Delay Sign Off Of New Rules At The Last Minute
The revamped Number 10 operation is accused of being in chaos after a row between the Treasury and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) over plans to do away with Covid restrictions forced the Prime Minister to delay a Cabinet meeting where the plans were due to be signed off.
To end all Covid restrictions now is foolhardy
Coronavirus
By Layla Moran MP
To end all Covid restrictions now is foolhardy
“Learning to live with Covid” must not mean “living as if Covid does not exist”. The cavalier attitude being flouted by ministers towards the virus is simply foolish.
Minister Says 'Employers And Employees' Will Decide If Someone Works With Covid When Isolation Rules End
Coronavirus
Minister Says "Employers And Employees" Will Decide If Someone Works With Covid When Isolation Rules End
Small business minister Paul Scully has placed an emphasis on individual choice when it comes to isolating with Covid as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to announce the end of remaining restrictions in England.
Five Charts That Show The Current State Of Covid-19 In The UK
Coronavirus
Five Charts That Show The Current State Of Covid-19 In The UK
Boris Johnson has announced that all Covid regulations could end this week — a month earlier than planned.
Boris Johnson Insists He Isn't 'Throwing Caution To The Wind' As Government Prepares To Axe All Covid Rules
Coronavirus
Boris Johnson Insists He Isn't "Throwing Caution To The Wind" As Government Prepares To Axe All Covid Rules
Boris Johnson has insisted that he isn't taking a gamble with public health as he prepares to drop all coronavirus restrictions as soon as this week, including the requirement to self-isolate if you catch the illness.
Government Accused Of A 'Cynical Gamble' With Vulnerable People's Lives By Ending Covid Isolation Rules
Coronavirus
Government Accused Of A "Cynical Gamble" With Vulnerable People's Lives By Ending Covid Isolation Rules
Unions representing six million workers in the UK have warned that lives are at risk if the government goes ahead with its plan to abandon Covid restrictions early.
EventsAll
Illicit Trade: The Growing Crime in the UK
2025
Thames Pavillion, House of Commons
Illicit Trade: The Growing Crime in the UK
Journey to Safety: Combatting Disability Hate Crime on Public Transport
2025
Surveyor's House, 12 Great George Street, SW1P 3AD
Journey to Safety: Combatting Disability Hate Crime on Public Transport
Net Zero Week 2025
2025
Virtual
Net Zero Week 2025