My last days with my daughter
Before Ruby, I did not understand that families who live in hospitals are not unusual people
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Low sick pay is making Britain sicker
Data analysis finds the majority of employees carry on working despite illness
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A life altered by Alzheimer’s
Also this week: rediscovering a lost diary, and trying to complete my book in time
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There is no medical treatment for a radically altered body image
Sometimes all doctors have to offer patients is shared humanity
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Time weighs heavy in my childhood home
I wonder how going into the street shooting at the road signs with my dad’s air rifle would go down…
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My mother is in hospital
So I seek the consolation of cats.
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Why Britain isn’t working
How the benefits system became a danger to the economy and a battleground for Labour.
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Christmas disease is not as festive as it sounds
The story of Stephen Christmas – for whom the clotting condition was named – highlights both medical advances and the…
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Work isn’t working: how to boost the nation’s health and happiness
Improving conditions and benefits could reduce long-term sickness and ultimately increase the UK’s productivity.
We need universal access to occupational health
In the UK, 2.8 million people are off work due to sickness – businesses of all sizes must be supported…
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Dispatches from the land of Long Covid
My search for a cure took me into the strange waters of wellness.
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The problem with Jeremy Hunt’s pledge to get people “fit for work”
The Chancellor wants to push more sick people into being economically productive but offers little to make them well in…
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To drive down rates of disease, we need to look beyond the NHS
The Major Conditions Strategy can only build a healthier society if it considers economic inequalities.
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The Research Brief: the case for preventing rather than treating ill health
Your weekly dose of policy thinking.
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