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‘Amazing community’: how people are making new friends and connections as adults
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Plan to limit NHS diagnoses of ADHD attacked as ‘rationing’ healthcare
Review expected to say patients in England should be ‘triaged’ and offered support without formal diagnosis
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‘A really scary place for children’: English hospitals have chronic lack of health play staff
Analysis finds only 955 play professionals supporting 21 million child hospital admissions, leaving many traum...
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Peers call for UK to enact tobacco-style ban on gambling advertising
Lords’ report faces criticism from lobby groups after suggesting ban would be ‘most effective’ way to reduce p...
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Women in England with incurable breast cancer to get life-extending drug on NHS
Thousands with HER2-low advanced breast cancer will have access to Enhertu after ministers strike deal on pric...
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Prisoners to ‘double up’ in one-person prefab cells, leaked documents show
Exclusive: Ten category C prisons in England and Wales asked to add second beds, in breach of safe occupancy l...
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The families facing a food crisis in school holidays
Letter: Andrew Forsey urges the government to restore the link between free school meals and the holiday activ...
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Twenty women had breasts removed unnecessarily during NHS cancer care
Patients among hundreds who suffered harm at County Durham and Darlington foundation trust’s breast unit
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A fresh approach to supporting unpaid carers
Letter: Social care reform must reflect the variations in the type, intensity and duration of care provided, s...
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Children’s care homes rely on committed people
Letter: Without the unflinching commitment of managers, social workers and those who work in them, they won’t...
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Researchers hope powerful new microscope will reveal ‘root cause’ of incurable bowel disease
No run-of-the-mill tech, ‘Curie’ operates at 10 times the resolution of conventional microscopy and could spur...
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Director who oversaw Grenfell cost-cutting given senior council housing role
Fire survivors and bereaved urge Barnet Group to ‘reconsider’ appointment of Laura Johnson, who pushed for che...
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Only slim chance target of 1.5m new homes in England will be met, Angela Rayner says
Angela Rayner says manifesto pledge is not being dropped but focus is now on building council houses