Health

Two people with in-depth experience of end of life care joined us.

Today’s vote only applies to England and Wales and, as we’ve been hearing, it still has many hurdles to pass before it becomes law.

Just after the vote, we caught up with two MPs from either side of the argument.

The effort to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales has cleared its first hurdle in parliament.

The former chief executive of the hospital where Lucy Letby worked, has described claims that he stalled a police investigation into baby deaths as “outrageous”.

Tomorrow, MPs must decide which side to take in one of the most significant debates they will face in this parliament – whether to allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults.

Long-awaited reforms to the 40-year-old Mental Health Act moved a step closer to becoming law today with their second reading in the House of Lords.

We spoke to the Labour peer and former Justice Secretary Charlie Falconer and Observer columnist Sonia Sodha.

A near-record 2.8 million people in the UK are currently not in a job or looking for a job because of long-term sickness.

Wes Streeting has been talking today about his plans for the NHS, including a league table which will name and shame failing trusts – so how did that go down?

A man with autism and learning difficulties who spent nearly 11 years in mental health units and other inappropriate settings finally has his own home in the community.

Marek Marzec is a Polish stonemason who came to this country in search of work 13 years ago. He found it – in the cutting rooms of kitchen worktop suppliers.

We’re joined by Catriona Moore, who is not only a parent of a child with SEND, but also the policy manager at the charity IPSEA, which helps families navigate the current SEND system to secure the support that their children are entitled to.

‘Financially unsustainable and in urgent need of reform’ was the bleak verdict of the National Audit Office when it looked into the way support is offered to children with special educational needs and disabilities in England.

In your hospital or your GP surgery,  there could be a member of staff most people have never heard of  – physician associates.