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  • general view of medical equipment on a NHS hospital ward in London including monitors and medication in trays; an anonymous, blurred image of a patient in a bed by a blue curtain can be seen in the background

    NHS patients raising safety concerns too often ‘fobbed off’, says commissioner

  • A pregnant woman and a midwife, seen from the shoulders down, stand facing each other

    From contaminated blood to birth trauma, how female NHS patients’ concerns are ignored

    England’s patient safety commissioner says NHS patients raising concerns are dismissed as ‘difficult women’
  • a general view of a prison: two men seen silhouetted as light streams through barred gates, walkways and metal stairways. A sign is seen reading 'this way up at mealtimes'.

    Starmer ‘shocked’ about prisons crisis as early release scheme prepared

    Government to announce terms which could free more than 20,000 inmates in coming months to manage capacity
  • Patricia Dale

    Patricia Dale obituary

  • Prison corridor

    Prisons crisis must not jeopardise Labour’s pledge on domestic abuse, Starmer told

  • Rear view of people sitting in a doctors waiting area

    Tell us: have you had to wait for healthcare in the UK?

  • Nadine Mills plays a south Londoner with superpowers in the hit Netflix show Supacell

    Hit Netflix show Supacell is raising awareness of sickle cell anaemia

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Interviews & opinion

  • Eva Wiseman

    We need more than trompe-l’oeil to fix our housing crisis

    Eva Wiseman
  • Weathered-looking white woman wearing pink and blue sunhat holds up bright orange piece of paper, with tents on green grass behind her.

    ‘Terrifying and dystopian’: the dark realities of the supreme court’s homelessness decision

  • Tony Sinclair, who formerly lived in a tent outside a hospital in central London

    ‘My state pension was £880 – and my rent was £1,000’: how a 70-year-old man became homeless in Britain

  • Marjolein Robertson standing in front of a wall hanging with colourful circular pattern.

    The period that almost killed me: ‘My mam was told, if you take her home, she won’t last the night’

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In mind: focus on mental health

  • Peyo the horse licks the hands of Roger, a patient at the palliative care centre at Calais Hospital.

    ‘Doctor Peyo’: the horse comforting cancer patients in Calais – in pictures

  • illustration

    An illness in the shadows: life with borderline personality disorder

    BPD is one of the mental illnesses we still know least about, but now there is hope of a treatment
  • Yoni Yehuda, an Israeli psychotherapist, with Jack Daniels.

    Cats, camels and a Jesus lizard: the rise of animal-assisted therapy

    Once considered eccentric, using animals in psychotherapy is becoming popular as research reveals benefits
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My working week

  • A woman waits in the shadows

    My working week: ‘I wonder who buys sex from the vulnerable women I try to help’

  • ‘Minor changes make a big difference for disabled people.’

    My working week: 'Julie is disabled and the only one in her team made redundant'

  • GPs have had to adapt patient care during the pandemic.

    My working week: 'A patient arrives at my GP surgery with Covid symptoms'

  • ‘Faith feels lost after the removal of her children. So much of what she knows about herself is as a mother.’ Picture posed by model.

    My working week: 'Fiona's son was taken into care a year ago. Today is his birthday'

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Health

  • Larry Elliott

    Opinion
    Rachel Reeves says the UK’s public finances are in a dire state – but here’s why I’m cautiously optimistic

    Larry Elliott
  • Chocolate bars and fizzy drinks.

    Sugar
    UK sugar tax explained: what is it and has it worked?

    New research shows levy has led to a significant drop in the amount of sugar in people’s diets
  • Keir Starmer

    Politics
    Starmer praises Abbott and hails diverse Commons in first speech to parliament as PM – as it happened

    Parliament the most diverse by race and gender the country has ever seen, says Starmer, with the largest cohort of LGBT+ MPs in the world

    Blood, sweat & tears

    • Patient receiving chemotherapy

      Watching my cancer patients go through treatment alone is heartbreaking

      Lucy Gossage
      Covid-19 has made this year tougher for those experiencing treatment and those of us who work in cancer care
    • Surgery

      I tried to take my life five years ago. Now I'm grateful to be alive

      Anonymous surgeon
    • Emergency service ambulance with blue lights flashing

      There's a patient I'll never forget. Their burns and screams still haunt me

      Anonymous
    • A protestor outside the Scottish parliament building

      My husband is in a care home. I visit him for 30 minutes each week in a car park

      Anonymous
    • Catherine Pointer University of Southampton general hospital

      I was diagnosed with cancer at 14. Now I work alongside a doctor who treated me

      Catherine Pointer
    • Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson

      I'm disabled but was told I won't receive critical care if I get Covid. It's terrifying

      Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson
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    Social care

    • The Children's Inquiry at Southwark Playhouse Elephant.

      The Children’s Inquiry review – exhilarating political musical about kids in care

    • Forms for applying for carer's allowance.

      I’ve been denied carer’s allowance for eight months after I owned up to a job

    • Keir Starmer holds a news conference after his first cabinet meeting on 6 July 2024.

      The Observer view on the new Labour government: a fine start but still a mountain to climb

    • Jonathan Clucas, headteacher at Layton Primary School, Blackpool.

      Five key workers on how Labour can fix Britain, from the NHS to prisons

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    Central & local government

    • Regional mayors of England visit Sir Keir Starmer at No 10 on 9 July.

      The Guardian view on Labour’s devolution plans: beyond ‘levelling up’

    • Michael Heseltine

      I’ve spent a lifetime working to level up Britain. Angela Rayner, here is my advice

      Michael Heseltine
    • A group shot of Labour MPs fills the frame with Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves front centre.

      Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner to kickstart new era of devolution

    • Council rubbish bins in Cambourne, Cambridge.

      Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research finds

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    Voluntary sector

    • A prison officer walks across an empty landing of a prison

      Labour must avoid release of high-risk offenders in prison plans, charity warns

    • A multicoloured screenprint of Kate Moss

      Top UK auction house told to stop taking buyer’s premium for charity sales

    • Oslo 19861125 Leah Levin i Oslo for å snakke om barnearbeid. Foto: Svein E. Furulund / Aftenposten / NTB scanpix Fysisk loc. 77.00

      Leah Levin obituary

    • A CUSTODY OFFICER TALKS TO AN OFFENDER BEFORE A FOOTBALL

      Invest in people, not in building more prisons, to cut reoffending

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    Housing

    • Builders stand on scaffolding as they work on the roof of a house on a housing development

      Barratt to build fewer houses this year despite Labour pledge to fix shortage

      • Woman using Switchee thermostat

        UK tech startup raises £5m to prevent dangerous mould in social housing

      • Bricks and mortar

        How to access land to build more housing

      • Green fields and fences under a blue sky

        Labour’s housing plans will use land twice size of Milton Keynes, expert says

      • Rachel Reeves in front of a red backdrop with the Treasury logo

        Rachel Reeves says new government has inherited ‘worst set of circumstances since second world war’ – as it happened

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