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  • Young man sitting in a wheelchair prepares to slide into car on street.

    Pressure mounts on Rachel Reeves to drop ‘dangerous’ £1.3bn cut to benefits for disabled

  • Cardinal Vincent Nichols in the Vatican

    UK’s top Catholic bishop urges faithful to lobby MPs to oppose assisted dying

    Cardinal Vincent Nichols says proposed bill could change medical duty of care into ‘duty to kill’
  • 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’
  • Derek Webb in Las Vegas

    Poacher turned gamekeeper: the gambler who turned tables on bookies and lobbies for UK tax rise

  • Children playing in mud

    ‘He’s having fun!’: why children should be encouraged to play with mud

  • People sitting in wheelchairs on a viewing platform look out over a varied area of plants and trees

    Leading UK provider of respite holidays for severely disabled people to close

  • B-boy doing a Headspin freeze breakdance move

    Breakdancers told too many headspins could give them a ‘cone-head’

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Interviews & opinion

  • Eva Wiseman

    Medical tourism is booming. But is it a price worth paying?

    Eva Wiseman
  • Illustration of a woman in a natural landscape

    Midlife left me asking what was the point of me? But then everything changed, again

    Ros Reines
  • Eco Dewi Beach Cleaners pictured at Newgale beach in North Pembrokeshire.<br>From left to right: Jeremy Wadia (Director of the community interest company) and Katy Fox (Director of the community interest company), stand at the northern end of Newgale Beach in North Pembrokeshire, holding refuse bags, litter pickers, and collected beach debris and rubbish.

    Make it beautiful: seven local heroes improving communities

  • Staff working in a hospital unit

    Noble visions have been proposed for the NHS before. Will this time be different?

    The Secret Consultant
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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

  • Keir Starmer walking past wind turbines

    Labour
    The Starmer story so far: what has Labour done in its first 100 days?

  • Nathaniel Dye

    Opinion
    My terminal illness has taught me how precious life is – but also the value of a good death

    Nathaniel Dye
  • Patient and loved ones holding hands

    Assisted dying
    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

  • Social care
    When care homes just don’t care

  • Well actually
    My friend’s cancer turned mammograms from a routine into something ominous

  • Models
    Fashion experts raise concern about return to ‘extremely thin models’

  • Pharmaceuticals industry
    Politicians’ proposals would only minimally lower US drug prices, says report

  • Hurricane Milton
    Florida hospitals reopening after hurricanes as plans proved largely effective

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

  • Male carer walking down a corridor with a female care home resident

    Record number of men in care work in England as immigration eases jobs crisis

  • She wears a velvet dress and a crown

    Enda Walsh delivers a five-star dazzler and Forced Entertainment make mischief at Dublin theatre festival

  • Little boy looking out of a window

    The Guardian view on privatised care failures: a service crying out for change

  • Sammy Morris

    Sammy Morris obituary

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Central & local government

  • Scraps of food being thrown in the compost heap

    Food waste and the horror of discarded pumpkins

  • Kemi Badenoch

    Councillor who oversaw Grenfell works donated to Badenoch’s Tory leadership bid

  • Keir Starmer and Sue Gray.

    Scapegoat Sue Gray’s exit leaves Starmer’s No 10 with nowhere to hide

  • Pupils putting their hands up in class

    Special needs funding claims in English schools ‘increasingly being refused’

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Voluntary sector

  • A tent is a shelter for a homeless person under Blackfriars Bridge in London.

    Rough sleeping will soar unless Labour fills £1bn shortfall, charities say

  • Frank Sinatra performing in 1965

    My Way and Hey Jude among Britons’ most popular end-of-life songs

  • A man pushes a trolley by high shelves of stone objects

    Wellington’s false teeth and wolf bones: English Heritage seeks help to record vast collection

  • King Charles III first-class stamps

    UK charities fear first-class stamp price rise will mean fewer Christmas cards sent

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Housing

  • Angela Rayner outside Downing Street

    Ministers urged to introduce rent caps to tackle housing crisis in England

    • Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick

      Tories shocked at Cleverly exit while Labour MP says Badenoch-Jenrick contest is a ‘gift’ – as it happened

    • Homes under construction

      Ministers accused of ‘dawdling’ over leasehold changes in England and Wales

    • Chris Curtis

      Massive rent hikes, dodgy landlords – unlike many MPs, I know what renting is like. We have to fix it

      Chris Curtis
    • Scaffolding surrounds red-tiled and solar-panelled roofs on a construction site

      Housebuilder Vistry loses more than £1bn in value after profit warning

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