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Denis Campbell

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Denis Campbell is health policy editor for the Guardian. He has written about the NHS, public health and medicine since 2007 and shares health-writing duties with Andrew Gregory, the health editor

May 2026

  • Motion blur photo of an NHS hospital ward

    Waiting times for hospital treatment in England hit key target, figures show

  • A child with spinal muscular atrophy alongside his mother

    NHS drugs go-ahead offers lifeline to children with rare muscle-wasting disease

  • Silhouetted male pushing an unidentifiable person in a wheelchair along seafront as the sun sets.

    Older people risk mental decline if they do long hours of caring, UK study shows

  • A man with thinning white hair kneels down on the floor of a gallery to look closely at a sculpture of a long-necked bird-like creature.

    Arts and cultural engagement ‘linked to slower pace of biological ageing’

  • Cook more at home to reduce ultra-processed food intake, say cardiologist groups

  • Rare pregnancy complication has put UK women into ‘emergency surgery’

  • London schools trialling VR to relieve pupils’ stress

April 2026

  • Martha Mills smiling by a lake before her death in 2021.

    Martha’s rule may have saved more than 500 lives in England since 2024

  • A 3D illustration of human liver anatomy.

    Raise tax on alcohol and junk food to cut deaths from liver disease, experts say

  • Three men toasting with pints of beer in a social setting.

    People in UK spend fewer years in good health than a decade ago, study finds

  • Stethoscope around a doctor's neck

    Findings on healthy life expectancy in UK shed light on its deteriorating health

  • Dozens of MPs oppose Streeting’s new power to say what NHS pays for drugs

  • Safety fears as UK hospitals use nurses to cover for doctors due to shortage of medics

  • Bill banning people born after 2008 from buying tobacco clears UK parliament

  • Future of the NHS, saviour of the high street? High hopes for health hub in a Barnsley shopping centre

  • Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds

  • Doctors’ leader claims new reduced pay offer killed chances of ending strikes in England

  • Doctors’ strike timed to cause havoc over Easter break, says NHS England chief

  • Key stroke treatment still not available around the clock across England

  • UK drug exports to US spared tariffs under deal critics say will cost NHS billions

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