Will the government’s maternity review let families down again?
The Department of Health has announced the 14 hospital trusts it will investigate
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Why junior doctors are right to strike back
Also this week: downsizing to a flat and a bumper year for fathers over 60.
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Keir Starmer’s credit arrears
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Wes Streeting: This is a government of and for the working class
The Health Secretary on class, the NHS and a year of Labour government.
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A day out with Jeremy Corbyn’s new party
Can they really replace Labour?
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The five-day doctors’ strike is the last thing Labour needs
The government’s promise to fix the NHS is looking increasingly untenable.
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In Canada, I am rediscovering what being a GP can mean
Wes Streeting could learn a thing or two from British Columbia.
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Wes Streeting’s maternity revolution
The Health Secretary has vowed to overhaul the NHS’s most scandalous service.
By Labour promised to fix the NHS but seems set on breaking it even more
Wes Streeting appears to be the first Labour health secretary willing to countenance cutting back end-of-life care.
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Exclusive: Why Wes Streeting changed his mind on cross-sex hormones
The evidence that shifted the government’s position on providing the treatment to children is revealed here.
By The NHS will be paid to cut waiting lists – at great cost to patient safety
Are some people destined to become collateral damage so that lists “fall” faster?
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Labour has finally seized command of the health service
With the dissolution of NHS England, the government has the power – and the responsibility – to truly reform healthcare.
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It will take more than cash to repair the NHS
Labour must make hard decisions on the future of social care.
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What Streeting vs Miliband revealed
Labour’s ideological ambiguity is intensifying factional divides.
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Is the assisted dying bill doomed?
Wes Streeting’s intervention has added to the momentum against the legislation.
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How should the government tackle health inequalities?
Addressing the issue will be key to fulfilling its health mission.
Wes Streeting can’t solve unemployment with weight-loss drugs
There is a link between obesity and worklessness, but this is not the solution.
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Wes Streeting: “I don’t want to be the fun police”
The Health Secretary on Labour’s killjoy image and why the NHS will “go bust” without reform.
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How would a Labour government fix the NHS?
Wes Streeting, Preet Kaur Gill, Andrew Gwynne, Abena Oppong-Asare and Karin Smyth on creating a health service that is fit…
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Leaving politics behind on a liberating coastal wander
Also this week: A close encounter with Labour luvvies, and chaos at the British Museum.
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