health

City

Kingsdown Sports Centre threatened with closure

Jubilee Pool in Knowle faces the same fate, under a new proposed 'leisure investment strategy' from the council.

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)

Coronavirus in Bristol

Long Covid and the frontline of mass unemployment

Jess Connett
Jess Connett

Edition 26

Swimming in Bristol Harbour is possible. How can we make it happen?

Marcus Smith
Marcus Smith

Coronavirus in Bristol

Full toll of care home deaths in Bristol revealed as regulator finally makes data transparent

Criticism of government’s handling of crisis reignites as the Care Quality Commission releases data on the number of Covid-related deaths at individual care homes. 

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Coronavirus in Bristol

‘The end of the mask mandate threatens Bristol’s young and vulnerable’

Chloë Maughan
Chloë Maughan

Bristol History Podcast

Listen: Healthcare in Bristol before the NHS

Tom Brothwell

Reports

Southmead Hospital taking 'critically ill COVID patients' from as far away as Birmingham

Southmead Hospital faces 'challenge' as patient numbers hit a peak and surgeries and routine appointments are cancelled last month.

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)

Opinion

‘When you’re facing what feels like the ‘wrong’ puberty, it can seem like the clock is ticking too fast’

Amendment: This article has been amended to add more context on the ruling on the Tavistock Trust’s Gender Identity Clinic and more information about puberty...

Sage Brice
Sage Brice

Struggle for trans health equality

Parenting while Trans: Jacob's story

Jacob, a transmasculine dad, opens up about his experiences as a gestational parent.

Sage Brice
Sage Brice

Coronavirus in Bristol

'My operations were cancelled because of Covid. I'm still waiting in pain.'

Russell Pugh is one of many frustrated patients whose surgeries have been pushed down the queue since the pandemic began.

Arvind Howarth
Arvind Howarth

Features

‘Bone numbingly tired’: The exhausting reality of Long-Covid

Jane is still ill more than eight months after contracting coronavirus. But research is shedding light on what Long-Covid is.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Reports

New Bristol care home for disabled children to open after St Christopher’s closure

The privately-run home closed down in 2019. Now the council wants to fill the gap with in-house services instead of forking out for expensive placements outside Bristol.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Coronavirus in Bristol

Revealed: How Southmead Hospital is coping with Covid-19

Frontline NHS workers speak out about high staff absence, difficulties discharging patients and how the hospital will manage this winter.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Edition 23

How Bristol 24/7 publicised Big Tobacco’s push for respectability, before accepting its money

Local magazine and news website’s £25,000 grant from Philip Morris followed a string of articles referencing its new heated tobacco products.

Alon Aviram The Bristol Cable
Alon Aviram and The Bristol Cable

Edition 23

The corporate giants dominating our care system

The scandal of coronavirus deaths in care homes shone renewed light on a crumbling sector, distorted by big-money interests. The Cable asks, how did we get here and what can be done?

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Features

5 ways robots are changing our healthcare

With a leading robotics research hub in the city, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, partnering with local hospitals, Bristol is at the cutting-edge of robotics in healthcare.

Fatima Hudoon
Fatima Hudoon

Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services

Opinion: ‘The NHS sends too many mental health patients to hospital for expensive, ineffective care’

People are being sent away to private mental health providers for specialist treatment, but this often means poorer outcomes at higher costs, says occupational therapist Keir Harding.

Keir Harding
Keir Harding

Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services

Losing myself: my experiences of psychiatric hospitals

My time in hospitals kept me alive when I was unable to do that myself, but it came with its own set of wounds. Now, I want to be part of changing the system.

Hattie Porter

Herd Community

Green homes investment can benefit everyone in a post-Covid world

Adapting the UK’s housing stock is crucial to tackling climate change, and the task can create jobs in an economy harmed by coronavirus. By using and sharing our city’s expertise, Bristol can show the way forward.

Wolfgang Küchler

Coronavirus in Bristol

Living with OCD during a global health crisis

Back to normality? Not for those among us who have an uphill battle ahead of them. We spoke to Hannah, who lives with severe symptoms of OCD, to hear about her life during Covid-19.

Clara Rose Bullock

Coronavirus in Bristol

'Coronavirus means it’s never been more important to deal with the scandal of killer cold homes in Bristol'

Spring is bringing warmer temperatures now, but the COVID-19 pandemic has added an extra reason to act on living conditions that cause thousands of preventable deaths each winter, says Sarah Becker

Sarah Becker

Frontline fighters

Doctor's scathing criticism of PPE guidance that has put NHS staff at risk

The local NHS has responded well to the pandemic, but inadequate PPE has led to staff being hospitalised, according to a Bristol doctor working on the frontline of coronavirus.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Coronavirus in Bristol

Migrants are 1 in 6 of Bristol’s coronavirus hospital heroes. But many are charged to use NHS.

Thousands of local hospital staff are from 109 countries across the world, but many are charged to use the NHS they work in.

Adam Cantwell-Corn Priyanka Raval
Adam Cantwell-Corn and Priyanka Raval

Coronavirus in Bristol

Where are my patients? GP speaks out about non-covid-19 health problems

A Bristol GP shares her concerns that the drop in patients calling the surgery during coronavirus could lead to more serious illnesses down the line.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers
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