With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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Could the overstretched system for mental health service users be supplemented by day centres? RUTH HUNT considers the options
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In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
AS WE tentatively move away from the pandemic, we can see what is left is a mental health crisis of proportions we haven’t seen before.
Chronic underfunding and a lack of resources existed before the pandemic, but now with these additional people needing help it is an emergency.
Many believe the answers to this are in the community, but with the safety net eroded and a lack of facilities, how can that be?
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