One day I was director in a mental health trust. The next I was suicidal

Depression sucked the life and soul out of me but I knew from my clinical experience that I could recover

Five ways to avoid becoming a victim of prescription drugs errors

A study has revealed that mistakes in the writing or dispensing of medicine can cost up to 22,000 people their lives every year. Here’s how to avoid being one of them

A new heart saved my life. Too many others don’t get that chance

An opt-out system for organ donation could improve the outcomes for critically ill people waiting for a heart transplant

Here’s what Americans need to know about the UK’s health system

Donald Trump’s criticisms of the NHS suggest he knows little about our system – or the one he presides over, says freelance journalist James Ball

Vaginal mesh review to investigate true scale of complications

Audit of NHS data to establish how many women have experienced problems following implant surgery

If I can come back from wanting to kill myself, so can others

Peer-to-peer support was the key to my recovery. Now I run a charity where I use my experience to help others with mental health problems

Down’s syndrome test could see condition disappear, C of E warns

Church says new NHS test could lead to more terminations and fewer people born with condition

Alys Cole-King: ‘Suicide is a tragedy – particularly when it is a doctor or nurse’

Suicide prevention expert Alys Cole-King wants distressed NHS colleagues to seek support themselves during the winter crisis

‘I knew I was in labour’ – why are women being turned away from hospital during childbirth?

As a number of women recount how they were mistakenly told to go home and wait, before giving birth on the pavement or in a lift, experts warn that more investment in early-labour care is needed

Dentists warn of child tooth decay crisis as extractions hit new high

NHS surgeons removed multiple teeth from under-18s in England a record 42,911 times in 2016-17, figures show