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health
Public TWIS articles connected to this recurring idea.
- England’s Life Expectancy Has Reached a Record. Healthy Life Expectancy Has Fallen.
People in England are living longer on average, but healthy life expectancy has declined and the deprivation gap is about twenty years.
- What Causes Cancer — and What Can We Actually Control?
A plain-language explanation of how cancer develops, why smoking, alcohol, food, movement, UV, infections and pollution affect risk, and where personal responsibility ends and collective power begins.
- NHS Reorganisation Is Not the Same as Better Care
The Health Bill may change who controls the NHS in England, but the public test is whether patients receive safer, clearer, faster and better coordinated care.
- Daraxonrasib Doubled Survival in a Pancreatic Cancer Trial. UK Access Is Not Here Yet.
Daraxonrasib produced a major survival gain in a phase 3 pancreatic cancer trial, but the drug is still investigational and UK patients cannot assume NHS access yet.
- Why Is It So Hard to Find an NHS Dentist?
NHS dentistry shows how a public service can keep its public name while access becomes patchy, delayed, limited, and increasingly split by income.
- Workers Are Blamed for Refusing Bad Jobs
How benefits discourse turns health, care, insecure work, transport, and local opportunity into a story about individual attitude.