‘It brings you in and shelters you’: NHS creates ‘recovery gardens’ for staff and patients
Trusts work with the Royal Horticultural Society to create outdoor refuges for staff and patients
Don’t be afraid to cry – or to interrupt: doctors’ tips for making the most of your medical appointment
Be honest about your symptoms, voice your concerns, take notes, ask follow-up questions if you need to … GPs and surgeons explain how to make every minute count
Women in the UK: share your experiences of expressing breast milk in the workplace
We’d like to hear from women about how easy – or difficult – it has been recently to express milk at work. How supportive has your employer been?
Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds
Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial ‘dividend’
Rise in number of pregnant women in England not getting help they need, survey finds
CQC study finds falls across a range of metrics dealing with antenatal care, labour, childbirth and postnatal care
Robert Twycross obituary
Doctor who transformed pain relief and emphasised the need for a holistic approach for patients in palliative care
Nine hours and 52 minutes: did Dave Strachan’s ambulance wait cost him his life?
When he woke up with chest pains, his wife, Lucille, called 999, expecting help to arrive in minutes. But as he drifted in and out of consciousness, their wait continued ...
‘We have learned to have low expectations’: why can’t British hospitals serve better food?
After spending years in and out of hospital with my daughter, I know the patients’ food isn’t usually very good. But does it have to be this way?
‘They remind me there’s a life after cancer’: how paintings in NHS hospitals help patients feel better
Feedback on the benefits of displaying pictures on wards, now gathered in a new book, is backed by scientific studies
Carole Pound obituary
Other lives: Speech and language therapist whose academic research focused on humanising service for people with aphasia