Tag: NHS

Total Results: 111


Nobody wants to spend their last days in a care home. Credit: Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
06/10/2021 - 1:15am

Why wait to die? We're adding miserable years to the end of our lives

Lionel Shriver

Monday, March 1

01.03

Inside the race to create a vaccine passport With lockdowns set to be lifted, start-ups are already competing for Government approval

Steve Boggan

Monday, February 22

22.02

How Israel won the vaccine wars The country was predisposed to succeed — but took a huge gamble

Shany Mor

Wednesday, January 13

13.01

Will schools be open by summer? There's room for the Government to be smarter about shut downs

Tom Chivers

Wednesday, December 16

16.12

The dangerous cult of natural childbirth Doctors stereotype midwives as sadistic ideologues and midwives condemn doctors as arrogant brutes

Louise Perry

Wednesday, December 2

02.12

The toxic British worship of the NHS We need to protect patients, not sanctify the institution and place halos on staff

Ian Birrell

Friday, November 6

06.11

The Government’s Covid scaremongering It is an insult to the public's intelligence to treat us like a volatile rabble

Timandra Harkness

Friday, September 25

25.09

The empty cult of Captain Tom Our sentimental obsession with the war hero has more to do with failure than success

Tanya Gold

Tuesday, September 22

22.09

Parliament’s pathetic Covid response At times of national crisis, shouldn't our MPs hold Government to account?

Paul Embery

Tuesday, September 15

15.09

Why are doctors leaving in droves? This historically stable, lucrative and prestigious profession is in critical condition

Louise Perry

Tuesday, September 1

01.09

Let’s be honest, the NHS is awful In public we lionise it; in private we share stories of its incompetence and heartlessness

Henry Jeffreys

Tuesday, May 19

19.05

Up the workers: how Covid reset society’s values After decades of disdain for working people, their worth has risen rapidly. Will we back up our words with action?

Jenny McCartney