Can taking lessons outdoors tackle the children’s mental health crisis?

Oct 29, 2020

Five-year-old Alfie* hadn’t spoken a word at school all year until he started forest school. Being in nature, he finally opened up about the reason for his silence: he was grieving the death of his mother. “His mummy had died suddenly, at home in the summer...

Russia’s healthcare crisis accelerates rural decline

Oct 29, 2020

Life was being made easier for Muscovites – who have comparatively good healthcare – to keep them happy and prevent them protesting against authorities, he said. “Moscow lives off the rest of Russia. And who is this done to protect?” He pointed to the sky, a reference...

Doctors unable to order blood tests as crisis over shortage of components grows

Oct 9, 2020

GPs are increasingly unable to order blood tests, including those for cancer and serious heart conditions, as the shortage of Roche components becomes a national crisis. Experts have warned that the supply failure of blood test swabs and reagents – which could last...

Why Boris Johnson is walking a tightrope as he plots a route through the Covid crisis

Sep 23, 2020

Having spent the last few days locked in meetings with senior ministers and the Government’s top scientists, he is all too familiar with the hawk to dove ratio of the Covid sub-committees taking all the major decisions on No 10’s pandemic response. Mr...

Can bariatric surgery turn the tide on Britain’s obesity crisis?

Jul 21, 2020

An “emotional eater” since childhood, Claire Parker was 44 when she had a gastric bypass, where a small part of the top of the stomach is stapled in order to restrict food intake. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends that anyone with a body...

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