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Covid exposed the brutal realities of UK health inequality – has anything really changed?
Two people in vests work on the Covid memorial wall
Five years since the pandemic

Covid exposed the brutal realities of UK health inequality – has anything really changed?

Covid exposed brutal differences in how poverty affects health. Experts warn we’ve not learned our lessons, as the poor continue to live shorter, unhealthier lives
We all clapped for the NHS during the Covid pandemic. Did it actually do… anything?
Healthcare workers march through London during the pandemic. Image: Unsplash
Five years since the pandemic

We all clapped for the NHS during the Covid pandemic. Did it actually do… anything?

Poor women without education least likely to recover from effects of Covid, study finds
Five years since the pandemic

Poor women without education least likely to recover from effects of Covid, study finds

Top Stories

Postnatal thoughts: Having a baby is so irrational – but I did it anyway
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Postnatal thoughts: Having a baby is so irrational – but I did it anyway

Revealed: How ‘sinister’ lack of access to surgical abortions puts lives at risk
Abortion

Revealed: How ‘sinister’ lack of access to surgical abortions puts lives at risk

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

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We all clapped for the NHS during the Covid pandemic. Did it actually do… anything?
Healthcare workers march through London during the pandemic. Image: Unsplash
Five years since the pandemic

We all clapped for the NHS during the Covid pandemic. Did it actually do… anything?

Doctors ignored me, a disabled woman, when deciding if I’d be resuscitated in the pandemic
Rahima Begum

Doctors ignored me, a disabled woman, when deciding if I’d be resuscitated in the pandemic

Learning disability services have faced ‘drastic reduction in funding’ despite saving NHS money
Kerry Martin speaking at the report launch event in the Houses of Parliament on 6th Feb. Credit: Maya Roberts
Learning disabilities

Learning disability services have faced ‘drastic reduction in funding’ despite saving NHS money

How investing in one-stop shops to fix UK’s horror homes could pay for itself
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Housing

How investing in one-stop shops to fix UK’s horror homes could pay for itself

Mental health

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Chav Solidarity author D Hunter: ‘My violent childhood left me without role models for parenting’
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Chav Solidarity author D Hunter: ‘My violent childhood left me without role models for parenting’

‘People are scared’: Surge in helpline calls after Labour announces plans for benefit cuts
a person looking scared on a phone call
Disability benefits

‘People are scared’: Surge in helpline calls after Labour announces plans for benefit cuts

‘It worries me it could happen again’: How Covid turned life upside down for children and young people
Text reads: Coronavirus. Stay at home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives
Dr Alison Penny

‘It worries me it could happen again’: How Covid turned life upside down for children and young people

UK loses £118bn a year to poor mental health. Cutting benefits is not the answer
Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary.
Oliver Chantler

UK loses £118bn a year to poor mental health. Cutting benefits is not the answer

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