With councils and the NHS at loggerheads, vital services are at risk As with Brexit negotiations, some people prefer to walk away or refuse to budge, rather than work together to find solutions
I don’t need a digital pill to monitor me – I just need to see a doctor Sometimes patients need to talk to a live human being, says academic Lienkie Diedericks
Concerns over birthing options as NHS shuts midwife-led centres Trusts say midwives needed in hospitals, as critics argue women’s right to choose under threat
Without more staff, the NHS plan will fail. GPs will have to pick up the pieces Government long-term plans for the health service promise a lot, but success depends on having enough people to implement it
Schoolchildren to be offered sleep lessons after rise in disorders Move follows concerns about ‘hidden health disaster’ of sleeplessness among young
The NHS 10-year plan: what we already know Changes will include a mental health overhaul and advances in diabetes care
NHS to fund surgery on unborn babies with spina bifida From April patients will be able to have prenatal procedure to repair foetus’s spine
GPs could prescribe bingo and dancing after English trial’s success One practice prescribing activities saw 20% cut in hospital outpatient admissions
Why prescribing playlists for people with dementia is on the money As a GP, I know that funding is key if social prescribing is to work, writes Ann Robinson
Too many baby deaths avoidable, report into NHS finds Each Baby Counts project analyses cases of stillbirth, neonatal death and babies born with brain damage