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This is the NHS

Over four weeks in 2017 the Guardian attempted to get close to Britain’s health service – to hear voices from the frontline, to understand the endless cycle of pressures, and the complex way it is managed and financed

  • Samuel, a nursery nurse at the Brompton holds Lottie-Mae, 6 months, who has been at the hospital since she was born.

    Why is this children's heart unit facing closure? A day on the NHS frontline

    We spend a day with patients and staff at London’s Royal Brompton hospital, whose heart centre is earmarked for closure as part of NHS reforms
  • Image of a female doctor.

    The health gap - Guardian Live event

    Sir Michael Marmot joins an expert panel to discusses the conclusions of his latest book, The Health Gap, on what the government should being doing to tackle the health inequality problem
  • **BESTPIX** Junior Doctors Stage Second All Day Strike Over Pay And Conditions<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 10:  Junior Doctors carry placards on Westminster Bridge as they demonstrate outside St Thomas's Hospital on February 6, 2016, in London, England. Junior Doctors across the United Kingdom began a 24 hour strike today over the British governments' plans to change contracts for junior doctors. Doctors have claimed that Prime Minister David Cameron's government is not providing enough resources for the state-run National Health Service (NHS), which was founded by a socialist government in 1948 to provide free health care at the point of delivery.  (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) **BESTPIX**

    How do we pay for the NHS we want?

    The NHS is under pressure like never before with junior doctors united against the introduction of a new contract. At a Guardian Live event, the Guardian’s deputy editor Paul Johnson asked an expert panel how the NHS can continue to strive for and deliver quality care
  • A GP checks a patient’s eyes

    Misdiagnosis of what’s ailing the health service

  • Staff in a hospital A&E department

    European law and the imposition of the new junior doctor contracts

  • An operating theatre at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital at Cramlington

    Modern society needs 24/7 health provision

  • Preparing the operating theatre for surgery

    How I weep at this government’s cruelty and inhumanity

  • This is preparation for full privatisation of the NHS

  • Celebrate 5 July as NHS Day

  • When moral pressure runs out of options

  • Jeremy Hunt on the NHS: 'This decade needs to see the quality revolution'

  • NHS sign with Big Ben in the background

    The Guardian view on the NHS: stressed to breaking point

    Editorial: Courage and clear thinking will be needed to rescue the NHS at a time when public finances are already squeezed
  • Composite for NHS series

    That was the NHS: stories of hope, kindness and the human spirit

    Over the past four weeks the Guardian has attempted to get close to Britain’s health service – to hear voices from the frontline, to understand the endless cycle of pressures, and the complex way it is managed and financed
  • Junior doctors protest

    Four in five NHS staff thought about leaving

    Healthcare staff in Guardian survey say increasing workloads, unreasonable expectations, cuts and long hours are damaging their lives
  • Aneurin Bevan the Nation Health Minister and founder of the NHS is toured around the 400 bed Park Hospital Davy Hulme Lancashire<br>B4WF03 Aneurin Bevan the Nation Health Minister and founder of the NHS is toured around the 400 bed Park Hospital Davy Hulme Lancashire

    The NHS can be saved. We just have to decide how to do it

    The Guardian’s month-long inquiry into the health service - touching, sometimes hair-raising - has shown how much we value it and want to keep it free
  • Pfizer drug Advil

    Pharma's woes: profits, policies and patients as NHS England tries to save money on drugs

    Pfizer criticises Nice policies and the budget freeze, saying the sick are suffering. But are wonder drugs always the answer?
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    The secret trainee social worker's diary: 'My experiences as a carer help me'

    Mentoring young people who look after parents with mental health problems is part of the preparation for a fast-track graduate programme
    • Are locum doctors and nurses really bankrupting the NHS?

    • Confessions from A&E

    • The secret diary of a student nurse: 'I'm asked to look after a patient who has been violent'

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