1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (679+ words) Premier League’s link-up with the Together in Suicide campaign is dispersing simple, blunt and essential messaging The format for these is always the same kind of thing: contented, wholesome people throwing frisbees, or strolling through a small-town antiques fair, while…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (261+ words) Nurse Teun Toebes and filmmaker Jonathan de Jong argue for a radical new approach to treating – and giving freedom to – people with dementiaTeun Toebes was 17, a student nurse, when he first entered a care home. He entered, he remembers, “the…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (212+ words) Rates of smoking in Australia are the lowest they’ve ever been, but at the same time, the illicit trade has never been bigger. It’s estimated 80% of the tobacco trade is now illicit and the same taxes that helped curb smoking…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1346+ words) Exclusive: Documents reveal assessors’ grave fears if client needs are underestimated by tool that can’t be overridden State health officials were so alarmed by a controversial federal government aged-care funding tool that they kept a log of hundreds of cases…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (927+ words) “If you don’t mind, can we start with the patient who has died?” “But he has died,” I say to the resident, eyeing our long list of the living. “The family is getting agitated.” I hear “agitated” and my senses…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1065+ words) I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse The Guardian I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (668+ words) We can’t control what happens to us – only how we react to it. And when we help others we are reminded that we are more than our suffering Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (842+ words) Sector has avoided issue because of stigma fears, expert warns ahead of closure of Nottingham attacks inquiry Mental health organisations have “failed to acknowledge” the risk of violence from a minority of people with severe mental illnesses, the chief executive…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (839+ words) Tougher enforcement and better monitoring products coming into Australia should be considered before lowering taxes, experts say The Coalition’s health spokesperson has been unable to detail how its proposed slashing of the tobacco excise would reduce smoking rates, as experts…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (615+ words) Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan claim drastic cut to price of cigarettes and moves to legalise vapes will combat illicit tobacco trade Leading public health experts, the Australian Medical Association and Labor have rejected Angus Taylor’s plan to cut tobacco…...