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  • Research by NHS Providers shows that the NHS is struggling to cope with rising demand for children and young people’s care.

    Long delays to NHS care for children in England ‘creating forgotten generation’

  • A doctor holds the hand of an elderly woman.

    Scientists make DNA discovery that could help find pancreatic cancer cure

    Hope for new treatments after researchers find spread of disease is aided by shutting down of molecules in key genes
  • The founders of Tap, now a highly successful social enterprise

    Oxford brewery helps cut reoffending rates by training jail-leavers to make ale

    Social movement is a potential tool in solving UK prison crisis by helping ex-convicts learn new skills and readjust
  • Elinor O'Donovan: ‘[A guaranteed income] covers my living expenses, my rent and day-to-day stuff’

    Money for nothing: is universal basic income about to transform society?

  • Heineken beer bottles of the alcohol free beer brand Heineken 0.0.

    Low alcohol sales boom ahead of Euros final

  • A researcher in a white lab coat with a pipette and a block of glass vials

    ‘Staggering shortfall’ of NHS staff as record number of patients wait for tests

  • a prison officer walking past cells

    Fears UK prisons face ‘collapse’ as they could be full before early release scheme begins

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Interviews & opinion

  • Eva Wiseman

    We need more than trompe-l’oeil to fix our housing crisis

    Eva Wiseman
  • Weathered-looking white woman wearing pink and blue sunhat holds up bright orange piece of paper, with tents on green grass behind her.

    ‘Terrifying and dystopian’: the dark realities of the supreme court’s homelessness decision

  • Tony Sinclair, who formerly lived in a tent outside a hospital in central London

    ‘My state pension was £880 – and my rent was £1,000’: how a 70-year-old man became homeless in Britain

  • Marjolein Robertson standing in front of a wall hanging with colourful circular pattern.

    The period that almost killed me: ‘My mam was told, if you take her home, she won’t last the night’

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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

  • A health worker in protective gear, carrying a large checklist, approaches a mother and baby at their door

    Global development
    War has prevented 15m children being immunised against diseases, UN warns

  • man and woman with kids in fallen leaves

    Ask Philippa
    My brother’s mental illness hovers over my family life

    You see this as sibling rivalry but if you could learn the skill of attunement, it will be easier to imagine how he feels and to get on with him
  • Dr Ruth Westheimer in 2010.

    Sex
    Legendary sex therapist Dr Ruth dead at age 96

    Ruth Westheimer encouraged frank dialogue when it came to sex, a subject, she said, ‘we must talk about’

  • Taylor Swift
    Taylor Swift’s candid talk about body image inspires fans, US study finds

  • Environment
    The story of a heat death: David went to work in his new job on a French building site. By the end of the day he was dead

  • Alzheimer's
    ‘The grief and loss is hard to bear’: the cruelty of Alzheimer’s disease

  • Menopause
    Why testosterone is so important for women during menopause

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

  • The Children's Inquiry at Southwark Playhouse Elephant.

    The Children’s Inquiry review – exhilarating political musical about kids in care

  • Forms for applying for carer's allowance.

    I’ve been denied carer’s allowance for eight months after I owned up to a job

  • Keir Starmer holds a news conference after his first cabinet meeting on 6 July 2024.

    The Observer view on the new Labour government: a fine start but still a mountain to climb

  • Jonathan Clucas, headteacher at Layton Primary School, Blackpool.

    Five key workers on how Labour can fix Britain, from the NHS to prisons

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Central & local government

  • Michael Heseltine, former Conservative deputy leader, in Liverpool.

    Much of Michael Heseltine’s advice to Angela Rayner is good, but he is wrong about local councils

  • A black and white picture of Ruth Perry attached to a fence

    Inquiry into headteacher’s suicide says ‘macho culture’ of inspections must end

  • A woman wearing a red dress walks past a sign on Whitehall, London.

    After years of being gaslit by government, we civil servants can breathe again under Labour

    The civil servant
  • House under construction

    Labour cannot build 1.5m homes without cash for affordable housing, providers say

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Voluntary sector

  • Ampleforth College

    Ampleforth inquiry finds alleged serious abuse against pupils in last 10 years

  • A prison officer walks across an empty landing of a prison

    Labour must avoid release of high-risk offenders in prison plans, charity warns

  • A multicoloured screenprint of Kate Moss

    Top UK auction house told to stop taking buyer’s premium for charity sales

  • Oslo 19861125 Leah Levin i Oslo for å snakke om barnearbeid. Foto: Svein E. Furulund / Aftenposten / NTB scanpix Fysisk loc. 77.00

    Leah Levin obituary

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Housing

  • King Charles at the state opening of parliament

    Housebuilding, railways, Lords reform: what to expect in the king’s speech

    • Durham Castle overlooking the River Wear

      For better and worse, Durham’s student population has an impact on locals

    • Builders stand on scaffolding as they work on the roof of a house on a housing development

      Barratt to build fewer houses this year despite Labour pledge to fix shortage

    • Woman using Switchee thermostat

      UK tech startup raises £5m to prevent dangerous mould in social housing

    • Bricks and mortar

      How to access land to build more housing

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