A&E helped us through a miscarriage. Then we got a feedback text
At our darkest hour an NHS text asked my wife to rate her A&E experience. It’s hard to describe how crass and inappropriate this is
Doctors Dissected review – an eloquent case for consistent GP care
Britain’s GPs face the questions under Jane Haynes and Martin Scurr’s wonderfully humane examination, writes Kate Kellaway
Farage says UK will have to consider NHS funded by private insurance
Ukip leader Nigel Farage’s comments to BBC reignite 2012 row caused by him saying healthcare should be market-funded
Too many choices, high costs and bureaucracy: British expats grade American healthcare system ‘a pain in the arse’
Moving to the US for work has advantages for British citizens. The healthcare system is not one of them. It’s so bad that some expats fly home for treatment
How do you avoid being a bed-blocker?
Michele Hanson: The NHS does not need the added pressure of elderly patients trapped in hospitals. I plan to stay in my flat, shuffling about on my bum, until I fall off my perch …
I had postpartum psychosis. More must be done to help mothers like me
Vonny Leclerc: Postnatal depression’s bigger, uglier brother hit me. When all eyes are on the beautiful baby, we can forget to look at the mum
So the NHS is keen on home births? Well, it is cheaper…
Catherine Bennett: Home births and midwife-led units are put forward as the best options. But the NHS needs to make hospital deliveries a good and safe experience too
Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’
Marina Hyde: Giving birth in hospital these days is a hallucinatorily exhausting experience – and the cuts mean it’s about to get even worse
Should pregnant women be encouraged to shun hospital labour wards?
Milli Hill, Ellie Gibson, Joseph Harker: Nice guidelines now suggest that 45% of births are unsuitable for hospital wards but does this chime with out writers’ experiences?
Low-risk pregnant women urged to avoid hospital births
NHS guidance from National Institute for Health and Care Excellence suggests 45% of births ‘unsuitable’ for labour wards