The announcement that NHS England (NHSE) will be scrapped may have surprised the mainstream media, but for many insiders there were indications of the direction of travel. The absence of any serious ...

The year is 1828. Anaesthesia is yet to be invented and tethered to an operating table in the centre of a crowded, putrid theatre at Guy’s Hospital, a patient screams at his surgeon to stop the ...

A month before Mahmoud Abu Nujaila, a doctor who worked with Médecins Sans Frontières at Gaza's Al-Awda hospital, was killed by an Israeli airstrike along with his colleagues, he wrote on a hospital ...

Although the words “prevention is better than the cure” are often said, this still largely remains a mantra. The UK government has committed to a shift from “sickness to prevention” in the NHS.1 ...

I’ve worked in primary care, emergency care, and paediatrics. Every day I see people in mental distress—from depression to psychosis to post traumatic stress disorder. Recently, the UK Labour ...

The chairs of the BMJ Commission on the Future of Academic Medicine set out principles for transforming academic medicine and to help improve population and planetary health Academic medicine is in ...

The family of a doctor who took his own life within hours of receiving an email from the General Medical Council (GMC) has failed in their bid to sue the GMC for damages over his death.1 Sridharan ...

MPs grilled Wes Streeting about the government’s plan to take back control of running the health service. Gareth Iacobucci summarises the key takeaways Last month the UK government announced that it ...

New measures and legislation offer an opportunity to safeguard children from sexualised, violent, and other age-inappropriate online content, writes Rachel de Souza Throughout my time as Children’s ...

Campaigners who are taking the General Medical Council (GMC) to court alleging failure to properly regulate physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) have been cleared to submit new ...

The health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, has said that he is reviewing the “bizarre situation” of UK medical graduates having to compete with doctors from overseas for jobs in the NHS.

More focus needed to improve PPI reporting in research Patient and public involvement (PPI) has become a key part of health and social care research in many countries with a focus on working with or ...