Society
Black inmates at Wormwood Scrubs ‘disproportionately subjected to use of force’
Little action has been taken on issue at one of UK’s most notorious jails, Independent Monitoring Board says
Diane Taylor
19, Mar, 2024 @9:30 AM
The people who started again in their 90s: ‘I was in the closet for 95 years. Then that door blew open!’
It’s never too late and you’re never too old – at least according to the nonagenarians who are coming out, completing PhDs and publishing their first books in their 10th decade
Emine Saner
19, Mar, 2024 @5:00 AM
Sunak braces for backlash as smoking ban bill to be introduced in Commons
Libertarian faction of Conservatives expected to stage a rebellion but measure has widespread support
Ben Quinn Political correspondent
18, Mar, 2024 @7:23 PM
Outsourcing NHS treatment to private sector leads to poorer patient care | Letter
Letter: Private hospitals make billions from NHS contracts, but when things go wrong, they dump all the costs back on to the NHS, writes Johnbosco Nwogbo
18, Mar, 2024 @4:44 PM
‘We actually don’t know much’: the scientists trying to close the knowledge gap in trans healthcare
Researchers are running trials on how hormone therapies affect trans people that will also benefit healthcare for the wider population
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
18, Mar, 2024 @4:02 PM
‘It isn’t acceptable’: Garrick Club remains a bastion of male elitism
Ban on female members appears not to have deterred senior figures in the government, Whitehall, the arts and the law
Amelia Gentleman
18, Mar, 2024 @3:00 PM
Garrick Club’s men-only members list reveals roll-call of British establishment
Exclusive: Details made public for first time prompt anger over how many influential figures belong to club that bars women
Amelia Gentleman
18, Mar, 2024 @3:00 PM
Charities evoke spirit of Sure Start in call for bold Labour early-years policies
First 1001 Days Movement says five-year decline in toddler development is a ‘ticking time bomb’ for the UK
Alexandra Topping
18, Mar, 2024 @7:00 AM
UK researchers find way of diagnosing bowel cancer without biopsies
PET scans can examine entire bowel before and during treatment, avoiding risks associated with taking tissue samples
Jamie Grierson and agencies
18, Mar, 2024 @12:01 AM
UK scientists working on breast cancer monitor fitted in bra
Researchers at Nottingham Trent University hope device used at home will improve tracking of tumours
Alexandra Topping
18, Mar, 2024 @12:01 AM
NHS ombudsman Rob Behrens: ‘There are serious issues of concern’
The outgoing watchdog for England says there are still ‘too many examples of care not being safe’
Denis Campbell Health policy editor
17, Mar, 2024 @7:02 PM
NHS ombudsman warns hospitals are cynically burying evidence of poor care
Exclusive: Rob Behrens says ministers and health leaders are doing too little to end ‘cover-up culture’ in England
Denis Campbell Health policy editor
17, Mar, 2024 @7:01 PM
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