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Wes Streeting vowed to fix ‘broken’ NHS but critics say he failed to deliver https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/14/wes-streeting-vowed-fix-broken-nhs-critics-failed #WesStreeting #HealthPolicy #Politics #Health #LabourPartyLeadership #Labour #PublicServicesPolicy #Society #UkNews

A brutal wrestle on a plane, passengers outraged, attendants helpless: I saw the UK’s deportation policy at work | Hugh Muir https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/27/plane-passengers-uk-deportation-policy-gatwick-forced-removals #ImmigrationAndAsylum #HomeOffice #Migration #PublicServicesPolicy #Society #UkNews #Politics

A brutal wrestle on a plane, passengers outraged, attendants helpless: I saw the UK’s deportation policy at work | Hugh Muir https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/27/plane-passengers-uk-deportation-policy-gatwick-forced-removals #ImmigrationAndAsylum #HomeOffice #Migration #PublicServicesPolicy #Society #UkNews #Politics

A brutal wrestle on a plane, passengers outraged, attendants helpless: I saw the UK’s deportation policy at work | Hugh Muir https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/27/plane-passengers-uk-deportation-policy-gatwick-forced-removals #ImmigrationAndAsylum #HomeOffice #Migration #PublicServicesPolicy #Society #UkNews #Politics

A brutal wrestle on a plane, passengers outraged, attendants helpless: I saw the UK’s deportation policy at work | Hugh Muir https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/27/plane-passengers-uk-deportation-policy-gatwick-forced-removals #ImmigrationAndAsylum #HomeOffice #Migration #PublicServicesPolicy #Society #UkNews #Politics

Covid jab injury payments must be urgently reformed, says inquiry chair https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/16/covid-jab-injury-payments-must-be-urgently-reformed-says-inquiry-chair #CovidInquiry #Coronavirus #UkNews #Health #Disability #HealthPolicy #VaccinesAndImmunisation #Society #Politics #PublicServicesPolicy

Alarm in health service over Palantir staff being given NHS email accounts https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/08/alarm-health-service-palantir-staff-nhs-email-accounts #Nhs #Palantir #Health #Society #HealthPolicy #Technology #PublicServicesPolicy #Politics #AiArtificialIntelligence #UkNews

Unions privately voice misgivings over BMA pay demands and doctors’ strikes https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/04/trade-unions-bma-pay-talks-demands-doctors-strikes #TradeUnions #Doctors #IndustrialAction #PublicSectorPay #PublicServicesPolicy #Health #Nhs #Politics #Society #UkNews

NHS restructure is greatest danger to Streeting’s effort to revive service https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/29/nhs-restructure-danger-wes-streeting-revive-service #Nhs #WesStreeting #HealthPolicy #Health #Hospitals #Politics #PublicServicesPolicy #Society #UkNews

Reform UK’s ‘pro-family’ policies are an exclusionary sham, minister says https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/28/reform-uk-family-policies-labour-best-start-centres-olivia-bailey #Labour #Politics #Children #ReformUk #PublicServicesPolicy #Society #England #Education #UkNews

Labour failing to live up to ambition to reform public services, analysis finds https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/26/labour-failing-to-live-up-to-ambition-to-reform-public-services-analysis-finds #PublicServicesPolicy #Politics #Society #UkNews #Labour #Devolution #Nhs

NHS was ‘on brink of collapse’ during pandemic, Covid inquiry finds https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/19/superhuman-healthcare-workers-saved-nhs-from-collapse-covid-inquiry-concludes #Nhs #CovidInquiry #UkNews #Society #Health #HealthPolicy #PublicServicesPolicy #Politics #Coronavirus

Plans to cut NHS international workforce appear overambitious, say MPs https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/16/international-nhs-workforce-cuts-overambitious-mps-warn #Nhs #Health #Society #UkNews #HealthPolicy #Politics #PublicServicesPolicy

Patients face long journeys for medicines as pharmacies cut weekend hours https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/13/patients-face-long-journeys-for-medicines-as-pharmacies-cut-weekend-hours #Nhs #Society #Health #RuralAffairs #PharmaceuticalsIndustry #Business #UkNews #HealthPolicy #Politics #PublicServicesPolicy

Louise Casey: England’s social care system faces ‘moment of reckoning’ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/06/louise-casey-englands-social-care-system-faces-moment-of-reckoning #SocialCare #LouiseCasey #Dementia #Alzheimers #PublicServicesPolicy #Politics #Society #UkNews #OlderPeople

Louise Casey: England’s social care system faces ‘moment of reckoning’ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/06/louise-casey-englands-social-care-system-faces-moment-of-reckoning #SocialCare #LouiseCasey #Dementia #Alzheimers #PublicServicesPolicy #Politics #Society #UkNews #OlderPeople

Louise Casey: England’s social care system faces ‘moment of reckoning’ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/06/louise-casey-englands-social-care-system-faces-moment-of-reckoning #SocialCare #LouiseCasey #Dementia #Alzheimers #PublicServicesPolicy #Politics #Society #UkNews #OlderPeople

Louise Casey: England’s social care system faces ‘moment of reckoning’ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/06/louise-casey-englands-social-care-system-faces-moment-of-reckoning #SocialCare #LouiseCasey #Dementia #Alzheimers #PublicServicesPolicy #Politics #Society #UkNews #OlderPeople

‘A new normal’: inquiry’s key findings on how Covid changed UK society https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/04/covid-inquiry-key-findings-impact-uk-society-legacy #Coronavirus #InfectiousDiseases #MedicalResearch #Biology #Science #WorldNews #UkNews #HealthPolicy #Health #PublicServicesPolicy #Society #Homelessness #MentalHealth #Disability

Councils’ temporary housing costs to more than double by 2029-30, says LGA https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/03/council-temporary-housing-costs-more-than-double-2029-30-lga #Homelessness #LocalGovernment #Housing #Politics #Society #Communities #PublicServicesPolicy #SocialExclusion #UkNews #England

Treasury calls in Blair thinktank to advise on using AI across public services https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/trtreasury-blair-thinktank-advise-on-ai-use-public-services #AiArtificialIntelligence #Computing #Technology #PublicServicesPolicy #Politics #Society #UkNews

Ministers to set out plans to halve attainment gap in England’s schools https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/feb/21/ministers-to-set-out-plans-to-halve-attainment-gap-in-england-schools #SchoolFunding #Schools #PublicServicesPolicy #UkNews #Education #Society #Politics #Labour #Inequality

Ministers must end ‘barking mad’ restraints on civil service pay, union leader warns https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/19/ministers-must-end-restraints-civil-service-pay-regulators-mike-clancy-prospect-union #CivilService #PublicSectorPay #Regulators #PublicServicesPolicy #TradeUnions #ZerohoursContracts #WorkersRights #EmploymentLaw #UkNews #Politics #Society #Business

Almost 70% of NHS areas in England offer only one cycle of IVF, data shows https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/09/almost-70-percent-nhs-areas-england-one-cycle-ivf-data-infertility #Ivf #FertilityProblems #Health #Society #England #Pregnancy #Women #WomensHealth #Nhs #LocalGovernment #HealthPolicy #ParentsAndParenting #PublicServicesPolicy

UK’s ‘unsung army’ of full-time unpaid carers needs more support, report says https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/08/full-time-unpaid-carers-support-resolution-foundation-report #Carers #SocialCare #Benefits #Disability #Welfare #PublicServicesPolicy #Thinktanks #ResolutionFoundation #Politics #UkNews #Society

Wes Streeting calls for ‘cross-party consensus’ on gender identity ahead of puberty blocker trial https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/13/wes-streeting-politics-gender-identity-puberty-blocker-children #Publicservicespolicy #Children'shealth #Medicalresearch #Conservatives #WesStreeting #Healthpolicy #KemiBadenoch #Children #Politics #Science #Society #Gender #Health #UKnews #NHS

‘We’ve made progress’: environment secretary is upbeat despite Labour’s struggles https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/06/labour-steve-reed-environment-secretary-progress #UKcostoflivingcrisis #Publicservicespolicy #Environment #SteveReed #Politics #Farming #Society #Labour #UKnews #Water

Why it’s so easy for the US to cut children’s access to healthcare: ‘There’s no right to these programs’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/childrens-healthcare-cuts-youth-protections #Publicservicespolicy #Childprotection #UnitedNations #Healthpolicy #Socialcare #Children #Society #Sweden #Health

RFK Jr’s vaccine panel recommends new RSV treatment for infants https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/26/rfk-jr-vaccine-panel-rsv-treatment-infants #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Publicservicespolicy #Infectiousdiseases #RobertFKennedyJr #Medicalresearch #Healthpolicy #USpolitics #Science #Health #USnews

RFK Jr’s vaccine panel recommends new RSV treatment for infants https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/26/rfk-jr-vaccine-panel-rsv-treatment-infants #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Publicservicespolicy #Infectiousdiseases #RobertFKennedyJr #Medicalresearch #Healthpolicy #USpolitics #Science #Health #USnews

It’s my goal to live to 100 – and it’s not just diet and exercise that will help me achieve it | Devi Sridhar https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/07/live-to-100-diet-exercise-long-life #Publicservicespolicy #Lifeexpectancy #Healthpolicy #Politics #Society #Health #UKnews

What is ‘abundance’ liberalism, and why are people arguing about it? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/what-is-abundance-liberalism #Publicservicespolicy #USdomesticpolicy #Transportpolicy #Planningpolicy #Economicpolicy #USpolitics #Inequality #Regulators #Democrats #USnews #Books

AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/27/ai-prototypes-uk-welfare-system-dropped #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Publicservicespolicy #KeirStarmer #Technology #Computing #Politics #Benefits #Welfare #Society #UKnews #Labour

Treasury seeks to keep water firm fines earmarked for sewage cleanups https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/19/treasury-seeks-to-keep-water-firm-fines-earmarked-for-sewage-cleanups #Publicservicespolicy #Taxandspending #Waterindustry #RachelReeves #Conservation #Environment #Marinelife #Regulators #Pollution #Utilities #Politics #Society #Rivers #UKnews #Water

What does AI plan mean for NHS patient data and is there cause for concern? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/13/labour-ai-action-plan-nhs-patient-data-why-causing-concern #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Publicservicespolicy #Dataprotection #Healthpolicy #KeirStarmer #Technology #Computing #Politics #Privacy #Society #Labour #Health #UKnews #NHS

Under-vaccinated ethnic minority groups in UK at higher risk of Covid https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/27/undervaccinated-ethnic-minority-groups-in-uk-at-higher-risk-of-covid #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Publicservicespolicy #Healthpolicy #Coronavirus #Inequality #Politics #Society #Science #UKnews #Health #Race