As shadow care minister, Liz Kendall has to come up with answers to an ageing society. She tells Tali Fraser about her mission to put social care on an equal footing with the NHS, why certain Conservatives have made her furious and what it’s like talking to your parents about death. Photography by Louise Haywood-Schiefer

Taking proper care in the sun is extremely important, we all agree on that. Yet,
exposure to UV light carries both risks and benefits and over the last few decades, the focus has only been on the risk of over-exposure and that sunlight should be avoided at all costs. But in the last few years, an increasing number of studies have identified bias in older research and that moderate exposure to UV light may outweigh the risk of over-exposure.

Michael Gove has said that government preparations for Brexit meant the UK was better placed to respond to crises posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Imagine if your body started to turn into bone. That is the reality for people living with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), an ultra-rare and debilitating condition where soft tissue turns to bone.

Sometimes the NHS makes false economies which are short-sighted and lead to a reduction in patient dignity, a worsening of health outcomes and the creation of avoidable costs for the system as a whole. Nowhere is this clearer than in relation to the purchasing of absorbent pads in continence care.

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a silent killer that claims the lives of 100,000 people annually in the United Kingdom, surpassing cancer as the nation’s leading cause of death.

Slimming World, the UK and Ireland’s most advanced and effective weight management programme, recently held a parliamentary drop-in, supported by the APPG on Obesity, highlighting how Slimming World members are able to adopt healthy lifestyles in line with key government priorities around diet, the NHS, economic growth and harder to reach communities.

Hologic UK's Tim Simpson and Sarah Smith provide a framework for putting women’s needs at the heart of healthcare services.

When Lord Speaker John McFall heard me singing the praises of Tory MP Charles Walker on the Rest Is Politics podcast, he had the idea of bringing me and Charles together to talk about mental health.

Following the publication of Hologic’s report into Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, ‘The right patients, the right setting, the right clinicians’, we reflect on the need to improve diagnosis and treatment of the condition, and tackle the backlog of gynaecological appointments.

We are caught in a paradox.

Last month, a mother of three children was sentenced to 28 months’ imprisonment for ending her pregnancy. She was prosecuted under Section 58 of the Offences against the Person Act, a piece of legislation dating from 1861 that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

“Why do e-scooters and e-bikes keep exploding?” Asked a recent newspaper headline. And with good reason.

CEO of Veterans Aid Dr Hugh Milroy (UK) has been appointed to a new post at the World Veterans Federation. In his unique role as Head of the organisation's Wellbeing Division he will advise  members on the development of veteran-centred wellbeing  worldwide

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has launched the NHS Workforce Plan, a 15 year strategy to overhaul the staffing of the health service.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised to "train, retain and reform" the NHS workforce as he launched a long-awaited plan to tackle severe staff shortages in the health service.

When we launched the NHS Parliamentary Awards five years ago nobody could have known how much they would come to mean to our brilliant, dedicated staff.

The government’s response in April to Javed Khan’s report Making Smoking Obsolete reiterated that more must be done to embrace the role of vape products as an effective means of reducing smoking prevalence.

Carers UK estimates that there are 5.7 million unpaid carers across the UK, whilst recent polling suggests half of the population are or have been impacted

Pfizer UK's John McGinley explains how a flexible approach to COVID-19 management can offer the best outcomes for patients and the NHS.

Former chancellor George Osborne has told the Covid Inquiry that there was “no planning” in the Treasury for lockdowns as a response to a possible future pandemic.

Former prime minister David Cameron has told the Covid Inquiry it was a “mistake” for his government not to have prepared for a range of different types of pandemics, and instead placing a disproportionate focus on influenza.

Founder of the Campaign for Fairer Gambling, Derek Webb, makes the case for urgent betting reform in British horseracing.