A quarter of women in their fifties and sixties take antidepressants, and 15 per cent of women over 50 have been on them for longer than five years

The health service has a budget roughly equal to Portugal’s national income — but public satisfaction is at its lowest level since 1983

The treatments, which slow the progress of the disease, were given UK licences last year but the health watchdog Nice has refused to recommend them

Decca Aitkenhead is no stranger to the trauma of terminal illness and believes critics of the assisted dying bill are ignoring real-life suffering

A final version of the government’s ten-year plan to ‘reimagine’ the health service will soon be published. Here is what to expect

Most of those on the 7.4 million-strong list are outpatients who, under Wes Streeting’s ten-year plan, would be treated by community services closer to home

Young people are embracing drinks with vitamins and fermented ingredients that claim to help with stress, fatigue and anxiety

Stephanus Breytenbach, 53, who has astonished doctors since his terminal cancer diagnosis three years ago, has travelled to Britain to speak against the bill

The targeted therapy can stop blood cancer from progressing by nearly three times as long as existing treatments, research has suggested

The health secretary says there is ‘no reason’ to stop successful doctors taking charge of local hospitals as he shakes up the NHS