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  • Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting lean on a bench

    Keir Starmer abolishes health service’s executive body NHS England

  • A child playing with a controller in front of a screen featuring the Roblox logo

    Parents should stop children gaming on Roblox if they are worried, says CEO

    David Baszucki says company is vigilant about protecting users amid reports of bullying and grooming on platform
  • As many as 8.2 million people have work-limiting health conditions.

    Why is Keir Starmer’s government seeking to cut the benefits bill?

    Labour targeting sickness and disability benefits that have ballooned amid increasingly ageing and unwell population
  • Ambulance

    Two women face court charged with manslaughter after home-birth death of NSW baby

  • Teenagers holding smartphones

    Campaign to bar under-14s from having smartphones signed by 100,000 parents

  • A woman on a bed holding a hot water bottle to her abdomen.

    ‘First-of-a-kind’ daily pill for endometriosis treatment approved for NHS in England

  • Married couple on wedding day

    Marriage triples risk of obesity in men – but not women, study reveals

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Interviews & opinion

  • Woman in the dark holding one hand to her head

    I am an anti-domestic abuse advocate – but I failed to recognise it happening to me and my family

    Anonymous
  • Amanda Nguyen, pictured during astronaut training

    ‘I screamed and the world listened’: how astronaut Amanda Nguyen survived rape to fight for other victims

  • Seamus O'Reilly and his son enjoy the spa.

    The dogma of ‘Britain’s Strictest Headmistress’ is a con as old as time - gentle parenting produces happier kids

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Author and activist Jackson Katz photographed in Massachusetts

    ‘This moment is medieval’: Jackson Katz on misogyny, the manosphere – and why men must oppose Trumpism

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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

  • Martin Kettle

    Opinion
    Though Starmer’s project is fragile, he’s taking one giant leap: to reconfigure the British state

    Martin Kettle
  • Liz Kendall, secretary of state for work and pensions arrives at Downing Street.

    Opinion
    The Guardian view on Labour’s welfare plans: betraying the vulnerable

    Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer’s suggested benefit cuts are deeply unfair to poor, sick and disabled people – and ignore expert warnings that these measures won’t boost employment
  • a man in a suit sits in a room full of other people

    Robert F Kennedy Jr
    RFK Jr praises beef tallow on Fox News show with burger and fries

    Health secretary, under fire for his response to the measles outbreak, attacked seed oils in Sean Hannity interview

  • Opinion
    I twanged my achilles playing pickleball. Here’s what it taught me about tendons – and human nature

    Adrian Chiles

  • Texas
    CDC expects measles outbreak in west Texas to ‘expand rapidly’

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 nurse holds the hand of an elderly patient while taking her blood pressure

    Ministers delaying inquiry into treatment of migrant carers, RCN says

  • Wes Streeting in Downing Street, London, UK, on 25 Feb 2025.

    The Guardian view on Labour and the NHS: there is no miracle cure for a struggling health system

  • Molly Fox enjoys a cup of tea and chat.

    ‘I visit and his face lights up’: caring for West Yorkshire’s ageing population – photo essay

  • Birmingham city council building

    Almost half of England’s councils ‘could face bankruptcy over £4.6bn deficit’

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Central & local government

  • Keir Starmer.

    AI should replace some work of civil servants, Starmer to announce

  • Aerial view of Isle of Wight coastline

    We need smaller councils, not larger ones

  • British embassy in Moscow

    UK politics: UK expels Russian diplomat and says Moscow is seeking closure of British embassy in city – as it happened

  • Kirsty Major

    If you support streamlined planning, ask yourself this: what if someone built a new home on your roof?

    Kirsty Major
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Voluntary sector

  • Amercine Maneely.

    Mental health charities struggling to cope with GP-referral influx

  • Mike Amesbury speaks to media outside a magistrates court in January where he pleaded guilty to assault by beating

    UK politics: Starmer facing Reform UK byelection challenge as Mike Amesbury quits as MP – as it happened

  • Silhouette of young woman crouched in a room with her head on her knees

    ‘Criminals will go unpunished’ after victim services cuts, Reeves warned

  • Starmer addressing media at Downing Street

    Starmer defends slashing aid budget to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP - as it happened

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Housing

  • An aerial view of houses in Bristol

    Stamp duty deadline and economic gloom dampen UK housing market

    • Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner in hi-vis jackets and hard hats stand on scaffolding

      The Guardian view on the planning bill: new towns must be for people who need them

    • Bridget Cotter outside a block of flats

      UK housing associations accused of mis-selling ‘affordable’ homes as service charges soar by up to 400%

    • People sitting on benches in Harlow town centre, with a large former office block looming over them which has been converted into apartments

      London councils buy £140m of property to move homeless people out of city

    • Burned wreckage of bunk beds in fire damaged flat

      London ebike fire: landlords of ‘grossly overcrowded’ flat fined almost £100,000

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