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Denis Campbell

Denis Campbell is health policy editor for the Guardian and the Observer. He has written about the NHS, public health and medicine since 2007 and shares health-writing duties with Andrew Gregory, the health editor

October 2024

  • Two young people smoking cigarettes

    UK campaigners call for tobacco windfall tax and yearly levy on ‘lethal trade’

    Rachel Reeves urged to levy ‘double whammy’ on firms’ £1bn annual profits to fund measures to end smoking
  • Person having their blood pressure taken

    GP care analysis casts doubt on Labour pledge to ‘bring back the family doctor’

    Patients will increasingly see nurses, physiotherapists or pharmacists instead of GPs, says Frontier Economics study
  • Tiny baby with tubes covered with knitted blanket

    Mother repeatedly ‘kept in dark’ about reason for baby’s death, inquest told

    Jedidajah Otte accuses London NHS trust of ‘dishonesty’ over three-month-old Aviva’s death and infected baby feed

September 2024

  • Wes Streeting, the health secretary

    Streeting considers reviving dedicated cancer strategy after Tories axed it

  • A pharmacist's arm reaching for medicine.

    Pharmacy closures in England threaten plan to use them instead of GPs for some care

  • Tiny baby in white hat

    Hospital where baby died from infected feed had ‘entirely unsafe system’

  • People hold placards including one that says Fair Pay for Nursing

    Nurses in England reject government’s 5.5% pay award

  • Risk of lung cancer from radiotherapy doubles for breast cancer patients who smoke

  • Mental health overtakes cancer and obesity as Britons’ biggest health worry

  • Poor NHS maternity care in danger of becoming normalised, regulator warns

  • Top UK food firms urged to do more to cut ‘staggering’ emissions

  • Junior doctors bring dispute to end by voting to accept Streeting’s pay offer

  • NHS failing to learn from fatal sepsis mistakes, watchdog warns

  • Keir Starmer ready to face down ‘nanny state’ jibes in radical public health drive

  • Junk food TV ads to be banned pre-watershed in UK from October 2025

  • NHS restricting access to obesity services across England, BMJ finds

  • Long NHS delays in England leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths, inquiry finds

  • Darzi review says the NHS is in a critical condition but sets out a treatment plan

  • NHS trust admits contaminated feed caused baby’s death after decade of denial

  • Almost half of doctors sexually harassed by patients, research finds

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