Articles by Matty Edwards

Disruption of care, risky transition periods and dangerous cost-cutting reveal a broken commissioning cycle. However, an alternative is possible.

Funding cut, services cancelled, staff laid off, but it’s not all bad news. We look at positive community stories from all corners of Bristol.

The UK’s first ever clinical study using MDMA has started in Bristol, in a landmark moment for the use of psychedelic drugs in psychotherapy.

With NHS staff overworked and overstretched, hundreds of volunteers are helping reduce the load.

The fate of Stoke Croft’s Hamilton House encapsulates whether Bristol’s culture can survive the house building drive, says tenant.

Around 150 tenants forced out, in the latest chapter of the long dispute over the future of the Stokes Croft cultural hub.

Bristol City Council may have prevented children's centres from closing, but services for parents with young children are to be stretched even further

Two activists, one act of protest, two different outcomes. The Bristolians campaigning against UK arms sales.

The prison is trying to crack down on prescription drug pregabalin, as inmates either remain addicted or use it as currency.

After a recent breakthrough in securing landmark planning reforms, Bristol's music scene faces yet another setback.

North Bristol NHS Trust has backed down on plans to transfer management of staff to a private company, after pressure from trade unions and campaigners.

As pregabalin and gabapentin are liberally prescribed by GPs — and putting drug users at risk on the black market — the government is taking action.