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Image of campaigners with dentist Gaye Herford outside the BUPA practice in St Pauls, Bristol (credit: Alexander Turner)

‘What the hell can people do?’ Looming St Paul’s dentist closure shines light on a national crisis

Emptying savings, travelling miles for care, DIY dentistry and worsening health inequalities – campaigners and residents have been telling the Cable what the end of BUPA’s practice on Ashley Road will mean.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Reports

‘Life-saving’ council service for adults with learning disabilities facing cut

A Bristol woman says Concord Lodge saved her sister's life at a time when adults with learning disabilities are being locked up in psychiatric hospitals due to a lack of alternative.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Features

The menopause leaves some women struggling to work. But what can be done about it?

From depression to anxiety and chronic pain, it can be debilitating to go through the menopause. The Cable spoke to women about their experience and support at work.

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen

Reports

Image of East Bristol Intermediate Care Centre (credit: Google)

Bristol’s final council-run rehab centre set to close as part of adult social care cuts

A cabinet decision to close East Bristol Intermediate Care Centre will put more than 25 jobs at risk, but the council argues that sufficient alternative services are available in the city.

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

Features

Cooking up a storm: The project tackling Bristol’s rising food poverty

The Mazi Project provides pre-portioned meal kits to marginalised young people to address food poverty in the city.

Emma Blackmore
Emma Blackmore

Voices

‘I was finally diagnosed with ADHD at 25. Would I have got this sooner if I was a boy?’

After years of being misdiagnosed and incorrectly medicated, Dolores has finally got an ADHD diagnosis. But how different could her childhood have been if she’d been diagnosed sooner, like boys often are?

Dolores McGurran
Dolores McGurran

Features

Delays with at-home sexual health tests leave Bristolians with a sense of frustration

Since the pandemic, walk-in sexual health services in Bristol have given way to home testing kits – but some people are complaining of long delays and inconclusive results, with the council acknowledging access is a 'key issue'.

Andy Leake
Andy Leake

Reports

‘The way the NHS is managed is breaking workers’. Bristol nurses take historic strike action

Meet two critical care nurses from the picket line at the BRI in historic NHS strike action.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

People's History

A history of Bristol’s healthcare for the working classes

It's a myth that there was little or no access to free medical care before the establishment of the NHS in 1948 – but progress was slow, unequal and sometimes grisly.

Eugene Byrne
Eugene Byrne

Edition 31

‘I can’t die, I’ve not made my solo album’: Holysseus Fly on overcoming cancer and looking forward

The Bristol singer-songwriter and Ishmael Ensemble member discusses overcoming breast cancer at just 25 and launching her career as a solo artist.

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

Reports

Image of a masked nurse in a hospital operating room (credit: Royal College of Nursing)

As nurses vote for historic industrial action, is Bristol facing a winter of strikes? 

Nurses have voted for a national strike over pay for the first time ever, joining Bristol workers across multiple industries pushing for better pay and conditions as the UK goes from the cost of living crisis into recession.

Alex King
Alex King

Features

‘It’s a double stigma of menstruation and mental illness’

PMDD is a debilitating and poorly-understood condition affecting one in 20 people with periods, 34% of whom have attempted to take their own life.

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans
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