With a sense of inevitability and clear predictability, urgent and emergency care in the UK is rapidly heading into another winter of discontent. We are seeing signs that we will experience another ...

The government has announced the launch of an independent commission into adult social care in England, which will inform the creation of its proposed National Care Service.1 The commission, led by ...

Health officials overseeing the city of Wuhan in China have been forced to stop HIV clinics from uploading results to a new digital system for test sharing after two HIV positive patients were refused ...

Unresolved disagreements hinder progress towards the UN led treaty that could protect human and environmental health from the harms of plastic pollution, write Cressida Bowyer and Stephen Fletcher In ...

Crider and colleagues discuss the availability of personal and private medical records held by the NHS.1 Cybercrime is another area of concern. I recently researched occurrences of cybercrime against ...

Ethnic minority groups have regained their lower mortality Mortality rates in England and Wales have undergone remarkable changes over the past five years, with the pandemic bringing a surge not seen ...

Pilot medical apprenticeship programmes in England, which were being trialled as a new route into the profession, have been paused by the government. Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, one of the ...

Davis and colleagues highlight the critical need for clearer and more accessible information about medicines for patients.1 As an anaesthetist, I often encounter challenges in communicating the risks ...

Absolutely. As the name suggests, Veganuary encourages people to go vegan at the start of every year. Exactly! And eating more leaves too. The benefits of a plant based diet are well documented.1 It’s ...

The last major hospital in northern Gaza is now out of commission after a raid by Israeli forces left its surgical unit, medical store, and laboratory “burnt and severely damaged.” Staff and ...

A consultant psychiatrist has been struck off the UK medical register after a tribunal found that he had engaged in “scaremongering” over coronavirus vaccines in an online video. Daniel Armstrong ...

New administration has pledged massive reform but said little on how to achieve it The incoming US administration has signalled its intent to make large changes to the federal government’s approach to ...