Partha Kar, a Royal College of Physicians (RCP) councillor, has said that the college’s lack of a whistleblower policy left him with “no alternative” but to breach its rules and considers its plan to ...

As the NHS faces one of the most turbulent periods of its history, the BMA has elected a new chair. Rebecca Coombes spoke to him about his vision and priorities and whether the association will change ...

More than a quarter of medical trainees in some specialties reported feeling apprehensive or hesitant about escalating a patient to the supervising clinician, a “deeply troubling” finding that the ...

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has said that it is treating an increasing number of children for measles, amid reports that a child died after contracting the infection.1 The Times reported that a ...

Anders Bach-Mortensen and colleagues examine how increasing reliance on out-of-pocket payments for adult social care has created a quality divide In July 2024, the UK government abandoned long awaited ...

Twenty years of working in medicine is just long enough to realise how much things change and how little the core truths ever will. In 2004, in my first year as a doctor, we lived in a world defined ...

Over 12 000 Gazans desperately need to be evacuated for medical care, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said in a plea to countries around the world to “open their doors” to evacuees. “As the genocide in ...

As the Precision Public Health Asia conference approaches, Kent Buse and colleagues caution that the specialty risks becoming a high tech fix for deeply political problems In The Time Machine by HG ...

Consultant colorectal surgeon Ling Wong talks to Kathy Oxtoby about the complex surgery he performs—and how it’s important to find hope in every situation “I’m the type of person who doesn’t give up ...

Awaab’s law is an opportunity to advocate for better health When 2 year old Awaab Ishak died in 2020 the forensic pathologist found that the airway granulomas which led to his respiratory arrest were ...

Collection of ethnicity data in clinical research has been poor historically, but is essential to ensure that interventions are effective and safe across diverse populations. These data are needed to ...

Empowering, participatory approaches are needed to improve quality of life and health outcomes for people with dementia, write Emily Ong and colleagues Dementia is the seventh leading cause of death ...