Life & Society: Health
Lead Feature
Why GPs are leaving the NHS
For the last few years the medical profession have been the main opposition to NHS privatisation - but has a shortage of jobs changed all that?
In health
'My right to euthanasia'
- By Brittany Peats
- 05 November
The British MS-sufferer who went to court to try to ensure her husband wouldn't be prosecuted if he helped her travel to Switzerland to be euthanised talks to newstatesman.com
The back of Bush
- By Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
- 03 November
'With conservatives in the majority in Europe and America, fear and fatalism have dominated. Obama's message of change brings hope.' Denmark's ex-PM looks to a brighter future
Will more choice help us through the maze?
- By Joy Persaud
- 30 October
Patients will want to take the path that leads them to the healthcare that they want, at a time when they want it
Pakistan's forgotten patients
- By Samira Shackle
- 22 October
Samira Shackle reports on mental health provision in Pakistan – a nation failing to meet the needs of its most vulnerable citizens
Abortion and the Catholic vote
- By Katy Taylor
- 22 October
As MPs are denied the opportunity to debate abortion reforms, Diane Abbott points the finger at Catholic political influence, reports Katy Taylor
Feature
A sitting target
It's estimated that 65 million people worldwide require a wheelchair but more than 20 million of them do not own one which can mean no school or participate fully in lfie
More in health
The original sex manual
- By Antonia Quirke
- 25 September 2008
Two diagnoses, one conclusion
- By Martin Bright
- 11 September 2008
Inequality kills
- By Peter Wilby
- 04 September 2008
Wisdom teeth
- By Neil Clark
- 04 September 2008
Asbestos: The lies that killed
- By Ed Howker
- 28 August 2008
How ministers ignored the 'time bomb' in the classroom
- By Ed Howker
- 28 August 2008
Dem bones, dem bones
- By Fisun Güner
- 28 August 2008
