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Government launches major consultation on the future of the NHS, promising to put patients and staff at the heart of its 10-year health plan

You can be as diligent and thorough as you like when you visit a facility but there are things you cannot know until your loved one is in there

India has begun framing guidelines on so-called “passive” euthanasia that would lay out conditions for shutting off life support for terminally ill patients. But medical and religious organisations have expressed concerns that the norms would place too much responsibility on doctors to make decisions between life or death.

Is the way to address big issues, such as assisted dying, the model used in Ireland, asks Guardian columnist John Harris