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What is the NHS contaminated blood scandal and how did it happen?

From 1970 to 1990s, the NHS exposed people to tainted blood through transfusions and gave infected US blood products to haemophiliacs

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You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here by Benji Waterhouse review – the doctor won’t see you now

A brilliantly funny but deadly serious account of NHS psychiatry in crisis

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Thursday briefing: Why the government wants to roll back sex education in schools

In today’s newsletter: The Conservative government has announced a review of sex and relationships education in England – but is it what teachers want, or what children need?

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No screens at meals and insect food: four fresh findings about obesity

The European Congress on Obesity conference in Venice also hears about how financial incentives could help men lose weight

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Keir Starmer puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters

Campaign material to include pledges on NHS wait times and recruiting teachers

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Almost nine out of 10 nurses in England work when ill, survey finds

Nurses ‘sacrifice their health and wellbeing’ to help plug gaps in rotas, Royal College of Nurses says

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The Tories deserve to be abandoned by voters

Letters: Dr Sebastian Kraemer, John Boaler and Sue Pryce-Jones respond to Justine Greening’s article on why the public has turned away from the party

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Labour's Bridget Phillipson vows to get London schoolkids happier and back in class

In an interview with the Standard, shadow education secretary says she is gunning for the ‘one job in government’ that really changes children’s lives but admits to funding pressures

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NHS Is Paying Obese Men £400 To Lose Weight and Texting Them to 'Avoid the Kebab Shop'

Cash for weight loss? UK experts say it could save NHS money on diabetes and heart disease, but mental health risks of obesity add complexity.

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Wednesday briefing: The study that says semaglutide can do much more than help you lose weight

In today’s newsletter: A new study suggests semaglutides reduce not just obesity but risks to your heart too. What will that mean for their availability on the NHS?

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The Guardian view on health spending: a broken promise that voters are unlikely to forget or forgive

Editorial: The Tories’ record in office undermines their claim at the last election to be the party of the NHS

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Can weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic also treat addiction and dementia?

Studies show active ingredient semaglutide can reduce the risk of heart attack, improve fertility and help treat diabetes

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‘So much death and upset’: the nurses quitting the NHS after Covid – a photo essay

Hannah Grace Deller photographed several of her fellow nurses as they decided to leave the NHS after their experiences during the pandemic

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Martin Raw obituary

Anti-smoking campaigner whose research and activism helped to persuade millions of people to give up cigarettes

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Tell us your experience of wheelchair access in the UK

We’d like to find out more about your experience of accessing wheelchairs via the NHS

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The UK public is not confident about NHS cybersecurity at all

British public trusts the NHS to use their data for good, but thinks more could be done to protect it

Evening Standard

Jeremy Hunt hails wage rises outstripping inflation for 10th month in a row as economy bounces back

Official figures on the ‘wages recovery’ come just days after GDP growth jumped 0.6% in first three months of the year

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NHS spending rise lags behind Tory funding pledges, IFS finds

Thinktank says extra funding eaten up by higher inflation despite greater demand with service in poor state of repair

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Weight loss drug could reduce heart attack risk by 20%, study finds

Researchers say semaglutide, the active ingredient in Wegovy and Ozempic, could be biggest medical breakthrough since statins

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UK birth-trauma inquiry delivered gritty truths, but change will be hard

With many NHS maternity services struggling and a shortage of midwives, MPs’ plan for overhaul is ambitious

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The Guardian view on maternity care failures: birth trauma can and should be reduced

Editorial: A pioneering report from MPs should lead to much-needed improvements in the treatment of new mothers by the NHS

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The birth trauma scandal is not about one bad apple, one bad culture or one bad area – it’s about the mess of austerity

When I gave birth in the 00s, things were not perfect by any stretch, but unlike now, they were not broken absolutely everywhere, writes Zoe Williams

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‘I was left lying on the ground in pain’: shocking stories from UK birth trauma inquiry

The most harrowing experiences of women in labour come under eight common themes in the MPs’ report

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Women having ‘harrowing’ births as hospitals hide failures, says MPs’ report

UK birth trauma inquiry finds women variously mocked, ignored, fobbed off with paracetamol and left permanently damaged

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Overweight people more likely to take sick leave, European study finds

Economic impact laid bare by findings has implications for UK where about two-thirds of people are overweight or obese

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