A new flu jab offer for homeless people arrives just as the NHS bodies meant to deliver outreach face cuts and restructuring.
- Wellcome Multimorbidity PhD Fellow & Public Health Registrar substack.com/@sociallydetermined, University of Glasgow
Denmark and Britain take the same pills for old age. The gap is in ‘drugs for despair’.
As the government urges households to prepare for emergencies, the NHS faces a harder question: does it have the capacity to cope when the next crisis hits?
The gap between rich and poor areas is narrowing, but inequalities remain in some specialities and regions.
This summer’s heat deaths weren’t random. Poor, badly insulated homes are a public health hazard in summer as well as winter.
New data shows obesity rising fastest among the young and the poor, while it’s mainly the better off who are seeing the benefit of weight-loss drugs.
The NHS modernisation bill promises reform, but past reorganisations suggest costly upheaval may distract from fixing care where it matters most.
The UK’s healthy life expectancy crisis hits women hardest, but the government’s renewed women’s health strategy doesn’t come close to matching the scale of the problem.
Wes Streeting wants to dock hospital budgets to fix NHS misogyny. The cure may be worse than the disease.
Scotland’s assisted dying debate focused on safeguards, but for thousands dying in poverty with unmet care needs, the real question goes much deeper.
A vacina contra a meningite B existe desde 2013 e o Reino Unido foi o primeiro a adotá-la, mas apenas para bebês: uma geração de estudantes nunca a recebeu, e agora está pagando o preço
A vaccine has existed since 2013. The UK was first to adopt it. But a decade of students never received it – and are now paying the price.
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