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  • NSW’s new coercive control awareness campaign.

    If NSW’s coercive control ads work, more funding will be needed as victims come forward, advocates say

  • Anthony Albanese, Amanda Rishworth, Michelle Rowland and Micaela Cronin.

    Australian government pledges almost $1bn to help women leave violent relationships

    ‘Leaving violence payment’ of $5,000 will help women escape abusive relationships with money for services, risk assessments and safety planning
  • Sadiq Khan

    Mental health services key to preventing violent crimes, says Khan

    Exclusive: London mayor says poverty, alienation and ill health must be tackled to prevent crimes, after London sword attack
  • A woman looking out of her window.

    Perimenopausal women have 40% higher risk of depression, study suggests

  • Prostate cancer trial<br>EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY MAY 1 File photo dated 05/06/2020 of a paramedic holding a test tube containing a blood sample. Methods of screening men for prostate cancer are set to be trialled in a bid to save thousands of lives in the UK each year. The £42 million project, known as Transform, has been hailed as "a pivotal moment in the history of prostate cancer research" by experts. It is also hoped the research will help men avoid harm from potentially unnecessary biopsies and treatment. Issue date: Wednesday May 1, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story HEALTH Prostate. Photo credit should read: Simon Dawson/PA Wire

    Prostate cancer screening methods trialled in ‘pivotal moment’

  • Pearl Roberts

    Pearl Roberts obituary

  • People lay flowers and light candles at a church after the Nottingham attacks last year.

    String of killings have put spotlight on adequacy of mental health care in UK

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Interviews & opinion

  • COLOMBIA-CONFLICT-PERFORMANCE<br>People take part in a performance consisting in getting buried up to their waists and staying in that position as much as their bodies resist as part of the commemoration of the VII National Week of Remembrance, to support the dignity of victims of the armed conflict, symbolic reparation, resistance and social reconstruction that contribute to the construction of historical memory, at 13 Comuna shantytown in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on Octuber 16, 2014. AFP PHOTO/Raul ARBOLEDA (Photo credit should read RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty Images)

    From Colombia to Syria justice is possible for survivors of sexual violence in war – but we need the right ‘ecosystem’

    Clara Sandoval
  • Dr Hilary Cass

    ‘Children are being used as a football’: Hilary Cass on her review of gender identity services

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    There is a perfect time to shower – and it’s not when you think

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Lisa Mosconi

    Neurology professor Lisa Mosconi: ‘Menopause is a renovation project on the brain’

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In mind: focus on mental health

  • Peyo the horse licks the hands of Roger, a patient at the palliative care centre at Calais Hospital.

    ‘Doctor Peyo’: the horse comforting cancer patients in Calais – in pictures

  • illustration

    An illness in the shadows: life with borderline personality disorder

    BPD is one of the mental illnesses we still know least about, but now there is hope of a treatment
  • Yoni Yehuda, an Israeli psychotherapist, with Jack Daniels.

    Cats, camels and a Jesus lizard: the rise of animal-assisted therapy

    Once considered eccentric, using animals in psychotherapy is becoming popular as research reveals benefits
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My working week

  • A woman waits in the shadows

    My working week: ‘I wonder who buys sex from the vulnerable women I try to help’

  • ‘Minor changes make a big difference for disabled people.’

    My working week: 'Julie is disabled and the only one in her team made redundant'

  • GPs have had to adapt patient care during the pandemic.

    My working week: 'A patient arrives at my GP surgery with Covid symptoms'

  • ‘Faith feels lost after the removal of her children. So much of what she knows about herself is as a mother.’ Picture posed by model.

    My working week: 'Fiona's son was taken into care a year ago. Today is his birthday'

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Health

  • Protesters hold placards related to the infected blood scandal.

    Contaminated blood scandal
    Ministers agree three-month deadline for UK infected blood compensation

  • Rachel Clarke

    Opinion
    I can truly see the case for assisted dying. But the horrific state of the NHS makes me question if it is the best idea

    Rachel Clarke
  • Man fills a container of water from a tap outside the Klipdrift Water Treatment Plant in Hammanskraal in Pretoria

    Water
    Rapidly rising levels of TFA ‘forever chemical’ alarm experts

    Trifluoroacetic acid found in drinking water and rain is thought to damage fertility and child development

  • England
    Slow 999 response times forcing many more people to find own way to A&E

  • King Charles III
    King Charles visits hospital as he returns to public duties after cancer diagnosis – video

  • King Charles III
    King Charles speaks to cancer patients on first public engagement since diagnosis

Blood, sweat & tears

  • Patient receiving chemotherapy

    Watching my cancer patients go through treatment alone is heartbreaking

    Lucy Gossage
    Covid-19 has made this year tougher for those experiencing treatment and those of us who work in cancer care
  • Surgery

    I tried to take my life five years ago. Now I'm grateful to be alive

    Anonymous surgeon
  • Emergency service ambulance with blue lights flashing

    There's a patient I'll never forget. Their burns and screams still haunt me

    Anonymous
  • A protestor outside the Scottish parliament building

    My husband is in a care home. I visit him for 30 minutes each week in a car park

    Anonymous
  • Catherine Pointer University of Southampton general hospital

    I was diagnosed with cancer at 14. Now I work alongside a doctor who treated me

    Catherine Pointer
  • Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson

    I'm disabled but was told I won't receive critical care if I get Covid. It's terrifying

    Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson
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Social care

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Fostering is getting a shot of much-needed millennial energy – just ask Kiri Pritchard-McLean

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • graphic image showing a school sign, ballot cards and a pencil, an ambulance, a police car, a cyclist, a pothole and a wheelie bin

    From potholes to planning: key issues in England’s 2 May local elections

  • A teenage girl sitting in a dark doorway with light coming from an adjoining room

    Vulnerable teenagers ‘dumped and abandoned’ in hotels by councils in England

  • A caregiver pushes a man in a wheelchair on footpath

    Work and pensions committee chair tells ministers to fix carer’s allowance issues

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Central & local government

  • An aerial view of the Birmingham cityscape

    How Birmingham city council ended up in financial crisis: a timeline

  • People walk past Council House in Birmingham

    Birmingham city council accused of basing drastic cuts on ‘imagined’ data

  • Glass, metal and brick facade of Thurrock council building

    Local elections road trip: Thurrock – Politics Weekly UK

  • (left to right) Metro Mayor of Liverpool Steve Rotheram, Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin and the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, at the Convention of the North, an annual gathering of Northern business, political and civic leaders, including mayors of northern cities, at Manchester Central in Manchester. Picture date: Wednesday January 25, 2023.

    The Guardian view on England’s metro mayors: local elections that produce national figures

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Voluntary sector

  • 1993 Phoenix Festival<br>Vince Power and family during 1993 Phoenix Festival at Phoenix Festival in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Fred Duval/FilmMagic)

    Letter: Vince Power obituary

  • Five people in business clothes sit around a table

    UK charities hiring staff with ‘privilege not potential’, report author warns

  • How much am I bid? … Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in Love Actually.

    Love Actually, Barbie and Saltburn memorabilia auctioned for War Child

  • Aerial view of large house and outbuildings

    Captain Tom Moore’s Bedfordshire house on sale for £2.25m

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Housing

  • An abandoned akiya house is pictured in a small village in Miyoshi, Japan

    Akiya houses: why Japan has nine million empty homes

    • Mayor of London Sadiq Khan visiting a foundation in Brixton last week.

      UK politics: Labour’s Khan has 22-point lead over Tory rival in London mayoral race, poll suggests – as it happened

    • apartment buildings

      Could Vienna’s approach to affordable housing work in California?

    • Patrick Barry, 77, stands with a campaigner in front of a block of low-rise flats; there are banners on the steps and first-floor concrete walkways with messages including Retrofit Don't Demolish and Housing Rebellion

      Housing activists urge London mayor to save Clockwork Orange estate

    • Stuart Potts at his flat in Middleton, Manchester.

      The man who turned his home into a homeless shelter

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