How Alastair Campbell is confronting Westminster’s mental health crisis
When Alastair Campbell was 29 years old, he experienced what he describes today as “a full-on psychotic breakdown”. Depleted by long…
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I’d have forgotten so much were it not for my diary, a 253-page Word document I’ve kept for six years
In 1 January 2014, I went to the local cinema to see The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and convinced the…
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How the Home Office refused a dying woman’s wish
Practising in a semi-rural location in the south-west of England I have few jet-setting patients, but Nell is one exception.…
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Has Jeremy Hunt changed his mind on unilaterally imposing a new junior doctors’ contract?
The health secretary appears to be backing away from claims he is prepared to impose a new contract without the…
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Personal Story: Why I long to be vaccinated
The cognitive dissonance surrounding anti-vaxxers doesn’t simply reflect a mistrust of science, but a failure to situate oneself in another…
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As a heart transplant patient, I fear no-deal Brexit is truly “do or die”
If I don’t receive my medication on time, my body will start rejecting my heart.
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The computer will see you now
A typical doctor makes 10,000 decisions a year. But even the best will get things wrong at least 100 times.…
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Cabinet audit: What does the reappointment of Matt Hancock as Health and Social Care Secretary mean for policy?
Following the failed leadership candidate and Remainer’s embarrassing sycophancy towards Johnson during the campaign, Matt Hancock has stayed in the…
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