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Josh HallidayJournalist

The Guardian

Health & social care coverage read by Vital Signs

28 articles

Across 10 topics, first on 20 Jul 2025, most recently 16 Sept 2026.

This counts only pieces our coverage scan read on the topics Vital Signs tracks, not their full output.

Biography

Josh Halliday is the North of England editor at the Guardian. Twitter @JoshHalliday

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Recent articles

  1. Almost 75% of A&E staff face violence or aggression

    The GuardianA&E & ambulance response

  2. Britain’s ‘medieval’ health inequality is devastating NHS

    The GuardianHealth inequalities

  3. Ministers vow sweeping NHS changes after ‘devastating’ report on Lucy Letby hospital

    The GuardianMaternity & neonatal16 Sept 2026

  4. Matilda in pieces: what one mother’s suicide reveals about the carers broken by the system

    The GuardianAdult social care & reform11 Aug 2026

  5. Urgent need for more security after physical attacks and abuse, say MPs’ staff

    The GuardianMental health24 Jul 2026

  6. Search for lesbian grandmothers who inspired children’s book

    The GuardianElderly care & frailty7 Jun 2026

  7. Girls who survived Southport attack meet again: ‘It was like having big sisters’

    The GuardianMental health22 May 2026

  8. No joined-up approach, role of autism diagnosis and parental failings: key points from Southport inquiry

    The GuardianLearning disability & autism13 Apr 2026

  9. Sussex baby deaths inquiry will fail to learn lessons after excluding families, Streeting warned

    The GuardianHospital discharge / bed-blocking13 Apr 2026

  10. Thousands of unpaid carers to face DWP repayment demands during overhaul

    The GuardianUnpaid carers12 Apr 2026

  11. MPs threaten fresh inquiry into carers allowance scandal amid redress delays

    The GuardianAdult social care & reform22 Mar 2026

  12. Labour council accuses minister of ‘moral bankruptcy’ over social care dispute

    The GuardianAdult social care & reform2 Mar 2026

  13. ‘Betrayed’: 21 Hartlepool councillors threaten to quit Labour over care budget

    The GuardianAdult social care & reform17 Feb 2026

  14. Lake District village struggles to find GP – despite ad ​pledging ‘we’ll never run out of beer’

    The GuardianHospital discharge / bed-blocking11 Feb 2026

  15. Nurses’ families fear being torn apart in UK immigration crackdown, survey says

    The GuardianAdult social care & reform11 Feb 2026

  16. NHS patients put at risk by ‘sham investigations’, says ex-CEO of hospital

    The GuardianHospital discharge / bed-blocking1 Feb 2026

  17. Lucy Letby will face no new charges, Crown Prosecution Service says

    The GuardianHospital discharge / bed-blocking20 Jan 2026

  18. Parents of critically ill children ‘crushed’ by lack of support, say campaigners

    The GuardianHospital discharge / bed-blocking11 Jan 2026

  19. Pressure grows on DWP over ‘misleading’ response to carer’s allowance scandal

    The GuardianAdult social care & reform20 Dec 2025

  20. Blackpool report: why do England’s deprived areas have the most troubled hospitals?

    The GuardianHospital discharge / bed-blocking3 Dec 2025

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