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How to use the £20bn NHS birthday gift: an alternative wish list

4 July 2018

An extra cash injection promised for the UK's National Health Service is earmarked to go on what it wants, not what it really needs, says Luke Allen
Worrying we are ill when we aren't is not as bad as it seems

Worrying we are ill when we aren't is not as bad as it seems

7 September 2017

Extreme health anxiety can be crippling but a lot of today's internet-fuelled "cyberchondria" doesn't need formal psychological treatment, says Zara Aziz

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