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Denis Campbell

Denis Campbell is health policy editor for the Guardian and the Observer. He has written about the NHS, public health and medicine since 2007 and shares health-writing duties with Andrew Gregory, the health editor

April 2025

  • A woman sits on a sofa while talking to a doctor

    GPs in England will be able to claim £20 for every time patient is not sent to hospital

  • A doctor writes a prescription.

    British hospitals introduce treatment for heart failure that cuts deaths by 62%

  • care nurse visiting patient

    Health workers sent door to door in deprived areas to detect illnesses

  • Emergency ambulances sit parked at High Wycombe hospital

    Hospitals in England could shed 100,000 jobs in response to cost-cutting orders

  • ‘Generational shift’: UK gyms busier than ever as gen Zers ditch pub for pilates

  • Patient satisfaction with NHS has hit record low of 21%, survey finds

March 2025

  • A man in a home office standing with his hands to his lower back

    New drug for lower back pain could be ‘a gamechanger’

  • Girl stacking coins

    Decline of cash credited for drop in NHS surgery for children swallowing objects

  • A cyclist and a bus outside the Royal Free hospital in London.

    London maternity unit to shut in response to steep fall in birth rate

  • Mother holding her newborn baby looking tired and resting her head on her hand

    Exercise and screen time advice for new mothers angers parenting groups

  • Three-quarters of UK fertility patients using unproven add-on treatments

  • Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says

  • Post-Brexit reliance on NHS staff from ‘red list’ countries is unethical, Streeting says

  • Starmer unlikely to fulfil pledge on hospital waiting times, says IFS

  • Only 10% of non-surgical treatments for back problems kill pain, says review

  • Five ways to help manage lower back pain

  • Watchdog urges regular BMI checkups for millions across England and Wales

  • Cuts to welfare. Cuts to international aid. Has Labour lurched too far to the right?

  • 30,000 jobs could go in Labour’s radical overhaul of NHS

  • Streeting’s ‘shock’ at scale of NHS struggles inspires big political gamble

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