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Free Eye Tests and Homemade Muffins: What Happened When Specsavers Opened Its Doors After Hours
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Free Eye Tests and Homemade Muffins: What Happened When Specsavers Opened Its Doors After Hours

When Specsavers Twickenham partnered with local charity SPEAR to stay open after hours for people experiencing homelessness, it proved that when healthcare barriers are removed, people show up
Why British sauna culture is picking up steam
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Why British sauna culture is picking up steam

Britain’s mental health crisis is a leadership crisis, too
mental health
Ashley Mills

Britain’s mental health crisis is a leadership crisis, too

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Number of deaths from nitazenes increases fourfold in two years – but true number may never be known
Drug deaths

Number of deaths from nitazenes increases fourfold in two years – but true number may never be known

People with learning disabilities are dying 20 years early, report finds: ‘They deserve better’
Learning disabilities

People with learning disabilities are dying 20 years early, report finds: ‘They deserve better’

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

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Men are increasingly turning to AI and social media for health advice. The NHS needs to catch up
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William Pett

Men are increasingly turning to AI and social media for health advice. The NHS needs to catch up

People with learning disabilities are dying 20 years early, report finds: ‘They deserve better’
Top left: Chloe Every. Bottom left and right: Charlie Lander and family
Learning disabilities

People with learning disabilities are dying 20 years early, report finds: ‘They deserve better’

‘Are you really the doctor?’: The realities of life as a Black doctor in the NHS
Health

‘Are you really the doctor?’: The realities of life as a Black doctor in the NHS

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%: ‘Millions of us are carers or need care’
carer pushing someone in a wheelchair
Social care

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

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Die, My Love review – an extremely fraught, emotionally intense tale of motherhood
Film

Die, My Love review – an extremely fraught, emotionally intense tale of motherhood

I’m a trans care leaver. Finding love and acceptance as my true self was the best feeling in the world
Jack Smith

I’m a trans care leaver. Finding love and acceptance as my true self was the best feeling in the world

I asked ChatGPT to rate my life choices. I didn’t like what it told me
Sam Delaney

I asked ChatGPT to rate my life choices. I didn’t like what it told me

I battled leukaemia and then lost my fiancée to cancer. Here’s how I found hope in the grief
Brett, Hannah and their daughter Summer.
Grief

I battled leukaemia and then lost my fiancée to cancer. Here’s how I found hope in the grief