The maternity unit is no place for a culture war
Britain’s maternity services are underfunded, understaffed and divided by an ideological battle over the best way to give birth.
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Regulating hospital managers is not the silver bullet to a safer NHS
Following the Lucy Letby murders, professional regulation is only one step towards improving accountability in our health service.
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The Research Brief: how our health and social care systems keep hospital beds full
Your weekly dose of policy thinking.
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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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Cancer targets mean nothing without the staff to deliver them
To meet NHS England’s benchmarks for faster diagnosis and treatment, we need proper workforce resourcing.
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Private care is not the answer to the NHS crisis
Essential medical treatment has become yet another expense for those struggling with the cost of living.
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The NHS workforce crisis is holding back cancer diagnosis
As technology to detect cancer advances, staff shortages are curbing its potential.
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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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Hospitals are crumbling, and the impact on patients is immeasurable
At St Mary’s, we face collapsed ceilings and sewage leaks while staff time is wasted due to estate problems.
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Exclusion of pay in NHS workforce plan is “laughable”, says Adam Kay
As the government sets out its public sector pay deal, the former doctor told MPs that there is no clear…
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Can apprenticeships solve the NHS workforce crisis?
Without proper planning, the commitment to expand medical training outside of traditional routes risks creating a two-tier system.
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Can the NHS workforce plan rescue the health service?
Questions of politics and economics will influence the success or failure of Britain’s “national religion”.
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We have sleepwalked into a major gap in cancer care
As demand outstrips capacity, doctors face the moral injury of knowing that we can’t do the best for our patients.
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“The NHS saved my life”: MPs and peers on the health service
To mark the NHS’s 75th anniversary, parliamentarians recount their experiences of receiving care.
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Rosena Allin-Khan: “This is Tory Britain, where we examine patients in cupboards”
The shadow mental health minister on her double life as a doctor and politician, and Labour’s plans to fix the…
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Ditching the NHS for a new model won’t fix healthcare
As the workforce plan is released, international comparisons highlight the best prescription for the health service.
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Fifty days on an NHS ward
Over months of treatment, I have seen the best and the worst of healthcare in Britain.
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The NHS’s decline will have political consequences
People still value the service but they don’t think it’s well run.
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The family doctor knows best
A sweeping history of the NHS and one GP’s inside account of a long career on the front line.
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More medical school places will not automatically mean more junior doctors
A lack of postgraduate training is creating a specialist workforce shortage.
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