Readers respond to a letter which said that MDMA is not helpful in mental health careRachel McNulty (Letters, 19 April) is right to emphasise the need for proper funding of integrated mental health care and social support, but wrong to dismiss MDMA based on a single anecdotal case. I can provide a number of counter-anecdotes showing the value of MDMA...

Rates are improving in the US as healthcare organizations take steps to confront the continuing crisis. Still, new mothers often feel alone: ‘People don’t know what to do’After five months of maternity leave with her second baby, a daughter born on 26 March 2020, Pam Lins felt she was ready to return to work and start a new role. This was the first...

Chronic workforce shortages have put nursing staff under unbearable pressure, says union chiefNurses in England took an average of a week off sick last year because of stress, anxiety or depression, NHS figures reveal.The disclosure has prompted concern that the intense strains nurses face in their jobs, including low pay and understaffing, are damaging...

Readers respond to the prime minister’s claim that the UK is suffering from a ‘sicknote culture’As a retired GP who spent 35 years looking after people with anxiety and depression in primary care, I find Rishi Sunak’s recent comments about GPs “over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life” offensive (Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote...

What broke me as a child was my mother’s death from breast cancer. But around that shattering, I became a person – and learned how to parent my sonI try to remember her hands. They were younger than mine are now. I imagine her long fingers and yellow, uneven and unpolished fingernails. Or had her nails fallen out? I am eight, about to turn nine; she...

The group’s facility near Manchester, where three women died in 2022, ‘should be prosecuted’, says Richard CasebyThe father of a 23-year-old man who died after neglect at a Priory hospital is calling for a criminal investigation into a second Priory facility where three young women died in 2022.Richard Caseby said the Priory should be investigated and...