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Study shows such young people have higher risk of arriving at paediatric ICU severely ill and have worse outcomesMinority ethnic children and children from deprived backgrounds across the UK are more likely to die following admission to intensive care …
In today’s newsletter: As a new Guardian project begins, we hear from the teenagers navigating deprivation, isolation and a sense of being forgottenGood morning. A few weeks ago, 18-year-old Tamsin Jarman-Smith, born and raised in a small town just out…
Children’s commissioner says any Labour strategy to tackle deprivation must scrap the two-child benefit capChildren in England are living in “almost Dickensian levels of poverty” where deprivation has become normalised, the children’s commissioner has …
Revised bill passed after UK government rowed back on cuts will mean fewer rather than more people in relative poverty in 2030The changes the government made to the welfare bill in the face of a mounting rebellion over its proposals to cut disability b…
They are suffering disproportionately and without help, say researchers, and unless they are given a voice, problems will continue to mount upRead more: ‘We’re told we won’t amount to anything’: is it possible to change the fortunes of young people liv…
A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain relief to poor, terminally ill patients.
Andy McDonald says MPs are being asked to vote without vital evidence but work and pensions secretary says employment support programmes are being improvedThe Department for Work and Pensions has just published an analysis saying that, allowing for the…
As poverty deepens across Britain, the Guardian visited some of the hardest-hit places where leaders are aiming to shift healthcare from hospitals to communitiesBritain’s ‘medieval’ health inequality is devastating NHS, experts sayThe same 11 young wom…
A mountain of evidence has shown health prevention works – but the government as a whole has a role to playIn Lancaster the community nurse Lizzie Holmes knocks on doors to talk to people who are unwell but reluctant to accept NHS help. In Blackpool, “…
Exclusive: Health service estimated to be spending £50bn a year on effects of deprivation and child povertyBritain in 2025: sick man of Europe battling untreated illness crisisDowning St has a radical change in mind for the NHS: shifting its focus from…