Unsafe workspaces: health fears grow as staff get set for the big return

Safety reps sound the alarm over lack of risk assessments, PPE and social distancing

Screen Covid patients and NHS staff for post-traumatic stress, expert urges

Head of Royal College of Psychiatrists warns that the emotional toll from the pandemic could last for years

UK Covid: PM warns 8 March is earliest England’s schools can go back, if it will not cause ‘surge in disease’ – as it happened

PM stresses 8 March ‘earliest’ date for schools reopening; 1,725 deaths recorded in second highest daily toll; arrivals from red list countries face quarantine

I thrived on the tension and drama of British politics. Then I had a heart attack

I lived for the nerve-shredding rollercoaster of Westminster. But the stress got under my skin, and into my blood

‘I’m getting clarity, a time that will feel lighter’: psychics share their 2021 predictions

From astrology to tarot, interest in the mystical arts has flourished during the pandemic. So what is in store for the year ahead?

UK tourists who need routine treatment to be covered in EU for 12 months

British government says people entitled to NHS care who need treatment such as dialysis can apply

From variolation to vaccines: a short history of a medical triumph

The humble cow is encoded in one of medicine’s greatest feats

Hundreds of thousands of students in Scotland banned from socialising

Student union says move disregards mental health and ‘applies different rules from the rest of the adult population’

Alastair Campbell: ‘I’ve finally learned to live with my enemy’

Alastair Campbell has always struggled with depression. In a deeply personal book, he reveals the impact it’s had on him and his family – and how he’s been able to survive it

Scrap fines for school non-attendance in England, say psychiatrists

Experts say threat could lead to anxious pupils returning to class before they are ready