health Articles

The NHS cannot afford to ignore social care any longer – but adding the phrase to Jeremy Hunt's job title is not a solution, writes Joanne Harding This is not just about ‘winter pressures’ – there is no such thing any longer. This time, the crisis in the health...

We must take real action to save our health service, writes Catriona Ogilvy   New Year, old headlines: 'NHS in winter crisis'. Long waits, cancelled operations, queueing ambulances, and patients on trolleys. These stories have become the norm for the winter months,...

Social class persists as a key determinant for life expectancy and good health Disease In 1942, two drivers of William Beveridge’s concern for the giant evil of disease were the need to combat life expectancies that saw women, on average, dying in their mid-fifties...

We should be prepared for the NHS to be let down again by this week's budget, writes Martin Edobor On BBC’s Andrew Marr show this Sunday, chancellor Philip Hammond appeared to have lost touch with reality, stating that the United Kingdom has no unemployed people. Marr...