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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

Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services

Losing myself: my experiences of psychiatric hospitals

Herd Community

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

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.

Coronavirus in Bristol

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

Frontline fighters

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

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
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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

Coronavirus in Bristol

Revealed: Bristol care workers speak out amid confusion and scramble for PPE during covid-19 outbreaks

New data reveals 60 care home residents have died from coronavirus in two weeks, but some homes with outbreaks haven't had more residents tested.

Matty Edwards Priyanka Raval
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Coronavirus in Bristol

Care work: What next for the forgotten frontline of coronavirus?

As care homes are a new epicentre of the pandemic, we celebrate the historically overlooked, undervalued care sector and ask what needs to change after the pandemic.

Priyanka Raval Matty Edwards
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Coronavirus in Bristol

A message from a tired healthcare worker for all of us clapping for carers tonight

An NHS healthcare worker got in touch with us to share his thoughts on the Thursday night clap for the NHS.

Bristol History Podcast

Bristol History Podcast: Bristol and the 1918 'Spanish' Flu Pandemic

Arriving at the end of the First World War, the 1918 ‘Spanish’ Flu was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, killing between 40...

Coronavirus in Bristol

How to cope as a parent expecting during the unexpected

The Cable speaks to soon to be parents to share how they've been coping with changes to visiting rules at hospitals.

Fatima Hudoon

Coronavirus in Bristol

Bristol’s NHS trusts scaling up critical care capacity while hospital admissions remain stable

Internal emails said one of Bristol’s hospital trusts had planned to triple capacity, but local NHS bosses have declined to reveal more detail on their preparations.

Matty Edwards

Coronavirus in Bristol

'The contagion of misinformation and a Bristol Facebook page linking 5G and coronavirus'

There’s another contagion doing the rounds, it’s not coronavirus, but disinformation. And one Bristol Facebook page with thousands of likes is spreading claims that 5G is connected to the pandemic, says Alon Aviram.

Alon Aviram

Coronavirus in Bristol

Bristol GP says we’re in 'the calm before a terrible storm'

Coronavirus testing delays, a lack of protective equipment, and the stress of people flouting lockdown restrictions are troubling this Bristol GP.

Hannah Vickers

Coronavirus in Bristol

This NHS worker is facing eviction, as Bristol rallies to help coronavirus heroes

A Bristol NHS trust is paying to put up frontline workers in hotels so they can self-isolate, while communities offer their support.

Matty Edwards

Edition 22

Brian’s story and the scandal of fuel poverty in Bristol

Why many Bristolians can’t afford to keep warm.

Opinion

"A woman was denied emergency contraception at Asda. This is a private problem of public concern."

When rights of different groups in society collide, compromises need to be made. But with reproductive rights, we need to do better so that women in need come first.

Hannah Vickers

Reports

Exclusive: Special needs school to close amid police probe into care home

St Christopher’s residential home closed last year amid a child cruelty investigation. Now the much-criticised day school will shut its doors in March.

Matty Edwards

Features

Deputy Mayor wants pilot for safe consumption room in new drug strategy

More consultation is needed and city needs to work out how to fund it, but Asher Craig says it could be one way to reduce drug deaths, as a mock safe consumption room was on display last week.

Matty Edwards

Opinion

Measles is back, and it’s not just because of anti-vaxxers

We need to take our message out of surgeries and into communities, says a Bristol pharmacist

Ideas and Action

The initiative shaking up sex-ed in Bristol

Sex education in schools is limited in its breadth and awkward in its delivery. Could a circus TROUPE with a 12 ft silken labia be the answer?

Priyanka Raval
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People's History

The tragic story of Hannah Wiltshire and a Bedminster Workhouse resonates today

An untimely death led to a campaign for justice by the local community.

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