A two-year-old boy with a rare genetic disorder that leaves him unable to walk, crawl or roll has been denied…
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UK government health decisions, healthcare legislation, NHS budgets, DHSC announcements, health regulations and policy debates.
Ireland’s parliament has voted to scrap the mandatory three-day waiting period for early-stage abortions, clearing a path for the legislation…
Fatima Maada Bio, the first lady of Sierra Leone, has denied supporting female genital mutilation but insists she will not…
Independent readers responding to the assisted dying bill returning to the Commons shared deeply personal accounts of loved ones experiencing…
Britain’s global leadership on women’s rights is being undermined by deep cuts to overseas aid, MPs and campaigners have warned,…
The NHS offered to deliver a single 50p pill via taxi service in what critics have called an “absurd inefficiency”,…
The Supreme Court has dismantled a decade-old system of human rights protections for disabled people, in a ruling that disability…
Bran flakes could be labelled junk food under new Labour proposals that would overhaul how the government decides which products…
The healthcare campaigner and Guardian senior editor Merope Mills has been appointed a CBE in the King’s birthday honours list…
Families are being hit by dementia care bills approaching £100,000 a year, leaving many shocked by the true cost of…