Sid Ryan

City

NHS cuts hit fertility treatments

The local NHS has angered patients by restricting its criteria for IVF eligibility, at the same time as privatising Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine.

Infertility treatments to be halved under new plans

The News in Brief: Cuts, and consultations about cuts

City

Data leaves Bristol, dark ads arrive: how microtargeting is changing elections

The latest trend in political campaigning is to pump sponsored adverts directly into your Facebook feed. But with the law struggling to catch up with the technology, who is keeping an eye on ‘dark ads’?

Reports

Surprise announcement of A&E overnight closure in Weston

Reports

Weston wins ‘Top Hospital’ award despite second worst A&E in the UK

The results are in: Labour wins big in Bristol

Hopes for a Conservative surge in Bristol were trashed on Thursday night, with all four of the core constituencies now held by Labour. Even Bristol...

The disillusioned voters in Labour’s South Bristol stronghold

We headed to South Bristol to hear what voters are thinking about the upcoming election and find out which issues are important to them. We could have spent...

Is the Bristol mental health sector healthy?

Mental wellbeing is finally getting recognised as being as important as physical health. Squeezed budgets mean progress isn’t easy, but there are positive steps being taken in Bristol.

Metro mayor: Is Bristol ready for devolution?

We have voted for devolution and with it comes a new leadership role. But what is a metro mayor and who is in the running to be ours?

The NHS is in ‘a desperate state’, can it be saved?

This long-read on the NHS looks at how our local NHS services are doing, and the latest news on the the ‘plan’ to save the...

No more National Health Service

Sustainability and transformation plans are the Department of Health’s latest scheme to try to prevent the NHS slamming into the brick wall it’s accelerating towards. But are they going to work?