Health

In association with Specsavers

Health inequality

What are the eight Marmot Principles and how could they transform the health of a local area?

Jessica Allen, deputy director at University College London’s Institute of Health Equity, explains how the eight Marmot Principles can improve the health of a local population

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The hidden cost of going unseen and unheard

Specsavers optometrist conducting eye test with client in community setting as part of Home Visits program for people experiencing homelessness

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Bringing sight to your doorstep: How Specsavers Home Visits are transforming eye care access

How Specsavers are helping to transform healthcare access in Edinburgh

Hygiene poverty

Millions of pupils missing school due to hygiene poverty: ‘We have reinvented a Victorian problem’

The NHS

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Social care

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%: ‘Millions of us are carers or need care’

Andrea San Pedro-Lunn

Therapists shouldn’t all be white and middle class. We need more from marginalised backgrounds

a person in a wheelchair at a home with a chalkboard

Suzannah Young

Supported housing saves the taxpayer billions – but it’s facing an urgent financial crisis

One in five adults reported depression symptoms earlier this year, twice the rate recorded before the pandemic. mental health

Dr Thomas Peck

Mental Health Bill leaves ‘dangerous gaps’ which could threaten our human rights

Mental health

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Josie Jakub

Why it’s time to stop saying the c-word when talking about suicide

Screenshot of the film More Than A Parent depicts an unpaid parent carer sitting on the floor of her kitchen

Social care

Revealed: Over a third of parents who care for sick or disabled children have considered suicide

Acorn members hand in their open letter at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

Council tax

Bailiffs tried taking my kids’ toys over council tax debt – people shouldn’t have to go through this

Jack Smith