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  • 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

  • Smiling women hold a campaign banner outside the UK supreme court building

    Judicial ruling on legal definition of ‘woman’ will have UK politicians sighing with relief

    A unambiguous decision by the supreme court helps MPs, MSPs and others dodge difficult questions
  • Hashem Abedi

    Manchester Arena bomb plotter ‘moved to Belmarsh prison’ after attack on guards

    Hashem Abedi is alleged to have attacked three prison officers with hot cooking oil in kitchen at HMP Frankland
  • Women smile and raise glasses in front of the UK supreme court building

    What does the UK supreme court’s ruling on definition of ‘women’ mean?

  • (From left) Lanre Haastrup, the father of Isaiah Haastrup, and Rashid and Aliya Abbasi, the parents of Zainab Abbasi, holding up photos of their children

    Doctors in end-of-life cases of two UK children can be named, court rules

  • Young woman sleeping peacefully

    Cinderella partying: why young women no longer dance until dawn

  • Five judges from the UK supreme court ruled that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 does not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates
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    UK supreme court rules definition of woman in Equality Act refers to ‘a biological woman’ – video

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Interviews & opinion

  • Young man standing still using smartphone in a moving crowd<br>Young businessman standing still amidst a bustling crowd of commuters, focused on his smartphone while surrounded by the movement of city life

    The invisible man: Bryan died in an accident in 2015. Why did it take 10 years to identify him?

  • Adrian Chiles

    The world is getting noisier, and it’s making us ill. I’ve certainly played my part

    Adrian Chiles
  • Sonia Sodha

    Many MPs think it immoral to slash disability benefits – and they’re right

    Sonia Sodha
  • Martha Gill

    We can’t move for therapists but do they help or harm mental health patients?

    Martha Gill
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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

  • RFK Jr. Fluoride<br>Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on during a press conference about Utah's new fluoride ban, food additives and SNAP funds legislation, Monday, April 7, 2025, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Melissa Majchrzak)

    Science
    RFK Jr’s mixed messages on vaccines - podcast

  • a man speaking

    Robert F Kennedy Jr
    RFK Jr contradicts experts by linking autism rise to ‘environmental toxins’

    US health secretary bucks expert opinion as research shows rise in diagnoses due to better tools and screening
  • street leading to red and ivory building

    Massachusetts
    Six Massachusetts hospital workers on same floor report getting brain tumors

    Newton-Wellesley hospital president says all six tumors benign as ‘rigorous ongoing investigation’ conducted

  • Extreme heat
    Number of UK homes overheating soars to 80% in a decade, study finds

  • Opinion
    You too can have a body like Donald Trump’s. Here’s how

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at 41 – and had to find a new look

  • Opinion
    More bulk billing will ease the cost of living. But what Australia’s health system really needs is genuine reform

    Stephen Duckett

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

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

  • A man pushing someone in a wheelchair by a waterfront

    DWP to overhaul carer’s allowance checks after overpayment scandal

  • Valerie Howarth Both pictures are from the Third International Consultation in Stockholm Sweden, 2006. Valerie gave a keynote speech.

    Lady Howarth of Breckland obituary

  • Ward with patient in background

    England’s ‘complex’ health and care system harming patients, report says

  • BRITAIN-POLITICS-GOVERNMENT<br>A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer attending a Parliamentary Liaison Committee hearing in London on April 8, 2025. (Photo by PRU / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / PRU " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by -/PRU/AFP via Getty Images)

    UK politics: ‘All options on table’ for Scunthorpe steelworks, says Starmer, amid calls for nationalisation – as it happened

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Central & local government

  • Keir Starmer and Donald Trump leaving the White House in February

    UK officials label trade documents ‘secret’ to shield from US eyes amid Trump tariff war

  • A pile of fly-tipped rubbish in Birmingham

    The Guardian view on Birmingham’s bin strikes: a wake-up call for Labour

  • The felled oak tree in Whitewebbs Park, Enfield.

    Felling of ancient London oak tree by Toby Carvery owner reported to police

  • A man adds rubbish to a pile of bin bags on a street in Birmingham

    Birmingham bin workers reject deal to end strike

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Voluntary sector

  • Warwick Davis and Samantha Davis.

    Warwick Davis’s wife died as hospital planned to discharge her, inquest finds

  • Molly Russell in her school uniform.

    Meta and Pinterest believed to have donated to Molly Russell charity

  • Marion and Eddie O'Gorman and Diana , Princess of Wales 12 January 1988 at Mill Hill Secondary School when Diana inaugurated the charity.

    Eddie O’Gorman obituary

  • Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho

    Prince Harry attacks ‘blatant lies’ in charity row as watchdog opens inquiry

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Housing

  • sign in front of gas station that says 'play now calottery'

    Unhoused man wins $1m jackpot from California lottery scratcher

    • Drone view of rows of houses

      HSBC and Co-op Bank cut mortgage rates as Halifax and Lloyds ease rules

    • A modern block of flats with its pale-coloured cladding partially removed

      An expelled fire safety engineer has made my flat unsaleable

    • Joe Powell

      In the shadow of Grenfell, tenants are living with damp, mould and rats – there’s no faith in politics without a safe home

      Joe Powell
    • Man facing away from excavator demolishing a tent

      ‘Where’s the human dignity?’ As bulldozers roll in, this is the face of a Queensland crisis

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