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Faster than a speeding bullet… Like you, I grow tired of the routine comparisons made between Superman and me. I have rarely worn my underwear over my trousers and I have never been to Kansas. Moreover, if you have ever stepped foot in a London phone box, you will...

General practice is the core of the National Health Service and holds it together. As much as 90 per cent of all the consultations in the NHS are through GPs – our family doctors that we know and trust. Yet in London we are seeing cracks and fractures, which, if left...

It is likely that people’s lives have been saved thanks to personal budgets, say Gill Ruecroft and Sarahlee Richards Anne, a mother and grandmother, had been using mental health services for over 10 years and had a history of self-harm and overdosing. In the year...

The coalition’s U-turn on plain packaging for cigarettes is welcome, but it is a cynical move at the eleventh hour by an administration that has done little to truly tackle the long-term pressures that preventable ill health places on our National Health Service. When...