TV doctors back strike – cartoon

Holby City actors have expressed their support for the junior doctors’ threatened strike in December. Will the Timelord join them?

The Guardian view on homeopathy: the NHS shouldn’t pay

Editorial: Placebos can work magic. But that’s no argument for the health service to privilege a form of mock medicine that defies science and common sense

Homeopathy on prescription could be banned from NHS

Threat of judicial review has apparently forced ministers into launching a consultation to ensure funds are spent only on most effective treatments

Who wants to see a GP at the weekend? – cartoon

The government might be pushing for seven-day surgeries, but a survey suggests patients are happy with the way things are

NHS urged to respond to growing health dangers of chemsex

Gay men describe how they became dependent on heavy drug use at group sex parties, as alarm is raised over lack of coordinated response

An NHS plagued by ‘health tourism’ – cartoon

Jeremy Hunt has proposed charging foreigners for treatment, but is A&E really a big destination for health tourists?

FGM: reporting of cases among children becomes mandatory

Health professionals, teachers and social workers obliged to report child FGM cases from next week but duty on GPs to record cases among adults sparks row

Special delivery for Jeremy Hunt – cartoon

The correspondence between the health secretary and NHS junior doctors reaches its messy conclusion

Should acupuncture be used more widely in the NHS?

A growing body of healthcare practitioners believe acupunture should be offered routinely for more conditions including pain in labour and cancer

‘Chain of failings’ led to death of Charlotte Bevan and her newborn baby, coroner rules

Coroner says mentally ill woman, who left a Bristol hospital and jumped off a cliff holding her baby, needed a care plan and psychiatric help after she gave birth