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  • NHS ambulances wait outside a hospital in London on 5 March 2024.

    The Observer view on Dan Poulter and the failing Conservative government

  • Dan Poulter when he was a health minister, in 2013.

    I am resigning from the Tory party and crossing the floor. Only Labour wants to restore our NHS

    Dan Poulter
  • Dan Poulter, sitting at a table with two red Labour mugs on it, signs a form as Ellie Reeves watches

    Top Tory MP defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis

  • Demonstrators holding placards outside the inquiry into the infected blood scandal in London

    ‘My mum gave the injections that killed my brothers’: how UK’s infected blood scandal has torn lives apart

  • Revealed: UK government was warned of infected blood risks in 1970s

  • ‘Plasma was called liquid gold’: the true story of the UK infected blood scandal

  • Inga Rublite, right, with her twin sister Inese Briede, both smiling

    ‘It should have been safe’: twin of woman found under coat in A&E says death avoidable

    Exclusive: Inese Briede says her sister, Inga Rublite, 39, may not have died ‘if someone was just checking up on her’
  • Doctor sitting at a desk, as viewed through an open door with a sign reading 'consulting room 1' on the wall outside

    ‘I would not be alive’: anger at Sunak plan to strip GPs of sicknote powers

    Doctors’ ability to sign people off work is crucial, say readers, especially for those with mental health problems
  • David Bell

    The Cass review of gender identity services marks a return to reason and evidence – it must be defended

    David Bell
    Its author has had to fend off criticism and misinformation, but the report offers hope for a realistic conversation, says consultant psychiatrist David Bell
  • A GP checks a patient’s blood pressure.

    ‘Unsustainable’: UK predicted to see 50% spike in strokes by 2035

    Stark new projections suggest annual admissions will rise to 151,000, costing the NHS and economy £75bn
  • Busy nurses on an NHS hospital ward

    Nurses in England took an average of one week off sick for stress last year, data shows

    Chronic workforce shortages have put nursing staff under unbearable pressure, says union chief
  • British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speak to the media in Berlin, following talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Chancellery on 24 April.

    Rishi Sunak is punishing the sick to cover up his own failures

    Letters: Readers respond to the prime minister’s claim that the UK is suffering from a ‘sicknote culture’
  • A brick wall with FOODBANK and an arrow covering it

    Deprivation linked to higher second cancer risk among England breast cancer survivors

    Cambridge study finds those from poorest areas have 35% higher risk of second non-breast cancer
  • Elderly man with doctor

    The struggle to access good Parkinson’s care

    Letters: Anthony J Lester has not managed to see a specialist nurse since 2022. Plus a letter from Barry Norman
    • Doctors condemn suspension of retired GP over UK climate protests

    • Share your experience of accessing private medical care in the UK

    • ‘Kinder’ treatment for childhood brain cancer to be offered by NHS in England

  • An older woman about to have an MRI scan.

    Ethnic minorities in England ‘need more GP visits’ before cancer diagnosis

  • Dr Sarah Benn leaving the medical tribunal service in Manchester.

    Retired UK GP suspended for five months after climate protests

  • Gynaecologist with a sample pot after taking a cervical smear

    Almost 600,000 in England awaiting gynaecological treatment, figures show

    Exclusive: Analysis shows increase of a third in two years, prompting claim of ‘deprioritising women’s health’
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