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13 October 2024

  • A family of various ages sitting in a VW camper van

    Guilt, worry, resentment: how the ‘club sandwich’ generation juggles caring for parents, children and grandparents

    With people surviving longer and with greater infirmity, the pressures on adults living among three other generations are increasing

12 October 2024

  • Doctor takes patient's blood pressure

    Plans for digital NHS tag for overseas patients cause migrant privacy concerns

    Doctors say proposals will make it difficult to reassure trafficking victims and asylum seekers ‘hospitals are safe places’

11 October 2024

  • Patient and loved ones holding hands

    Assisted dying bill leaves much unanswered

    Letters: Dr Lucy Thomas says Charles Falconer’s assertion that the type of legislation he is proposing is ‘safe’ does not make it so; plus five other readers respond on questions of palliative care and Kim Leadbeater’s private member’s bill

10 October 2024

  • Members will now vote for either Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick to be Tory party leader

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    One Nation Tory group refuses to back Badenoch or Jenrick in party leadership race – as it happened

    TRG says both candidates have ‘used rhetoric and focused on issues which are far and away from … the values we cherish and uphold’
  • Female patient talking to mental health professional.

    We need person-centred mental health care, not more psychiatrists

    Letter: Dr Jennifer Poole says a less medicalised approach using therapists other than consultant psychiatrists would be more effective in the long term

    • Lucy Letby: police and CPS handling of case raises new concerns about convictions

    • Disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson refuses to attend inquest

    • Teachers regularly helping pupils in distress in attempt to fill NHS funding gap

9 October 2024

  • Lady Justice Thirlwall

    Lucy Letby encouraged by manager to visit Alder Hey children’s hospital, inquiry hears

    Countess of Chester senior nurse said placements would give Letby ‘break’ from stress, despite knowing she was under investigation over babies’ deaths

8 October 2024

  • coroner's court london england

    The Guardian view on the coroner’s role: if deaths can be prevented, they should be

    Editorial: When inquests make recommendations, they must not be allowed to sink into a bottom drawer
  • Ian Paterson.

    Colleague of disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson raised concerns two decades ago, inquest hears

    Paterson is serving a 20-year sentence for wounding after being found guilty in 2017 of carrying out unnecessary and damaging breast cancer operations
  • Woman's hand with a wedding ring writing on a tablet during a psychotherapy session.

    Scottish ministers ‘mismanaging NHS’, say opposition, as huge hourly rates revealed

    SNP government lambasted by Lib Dem, Labour and Tory MSPs over sums spent to hire locum emergency psychiatrists

7 October 2024

  • A sign announcing the Thirlwall inquiry at the entrance to Liverpool town hall

    Doctor secured Lucy Letby hospital placement while she was suspected of murder

    Registrar who exchanged more than 1,000 messages with nurse tells public inquiry he believes he was misled
  • Maeve Boothby O’Neill

    Address ‘non-existent’ severe ME care or risk further deaths, UK health minister told

    Coroner who heard inquest into death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill calls for action to tackle chronic fatigue syndrome

    • Scottish NHS boards pay up to £837 an hour for locums amid psychiatry crisis

    • ‘No care left in the system’: patients on use of locum psychiatrists in Scotland

    • Inquest to open over deaths of patients treated by breast surgeon Ian Paterson

6 October 2024

  • A nurse attaches an identity tag on a newborn baby's foot

    NHS maternity staff to receive mandatory training to improve patient safety

    Obstetricians, midwives and obstetric anaesthetists will take part in pilots after damning report by health regulator
  • Person having their blood pressure taken

    GP care analysis casts doubt on Labour pledge to ‘bring back the family doctor’

    Patients will increasingly see nurses, physiotherapists or pharmacists instead of GPs, says Frontier Economics study
  • Emma Beddington

    I thought I was fine with being bald. But the chance of a cure has stirred up all sorts of feelings

    Emma Beddington
    It’s almost 30 years since I lost my hair to alopecia. What if Pfizer’s drug Litfulo could bring it back? asks Guardian columnist Emma Beddington
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