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Exclusive: Health secretary said hospital, to shut after this publication exposed allegations of mistreatment, was ‘truly terrifying’ example of what happens when safety is ‘not taken seriously’

Making healthy life expectancy central to all government policy is the surest way of stemming demand on the health service, says surgeon and former health minister Lord Darzi

Government must invest £15bn a year on a changes to improve wellbeing and prosperity, says thinktank

Almost two-thirds vote in favour of average salary increase of 22.3% over two years after 18 months of strikes

Opinion heavily split across parties over legalising support for terminally ill people to end their lives

Editorial: Lord Darzi’s review of our ailing health system contains a diagnosis. Now Labour must figure out a cure

Spokesperson for Keir Starmer says focus was instead on encouraging pensioners to seek additional support

Lord Darzi’s damning report on the crisis facing our health service will be the benchmark from which improvements will be judged, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

‘We have to fix the plumbing before we turn on the taps’ says PM

Finally, a politician acknowledges the reality that the health service is on its knees, but also that there is no easy fix

The NHS has become such a bleak topic of discussion in recent years that it is almost impossible to imagine it being fixed. Lord Darzi’s report paints a picture of an organisation grappling with several crises: in primary care, hospitals and the treatment of long-term illness. Its findings make for…