The union representing physician associates (PAs) is supporting legal action by scores of members who lost their jobs after the BMA and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) published ...

John Rogers was born in Bedford to David and Elsie Rogers. John’s parents were born and bred in Wales and he had a lifelong pride in his Welsh connections. He was educated at Bedford School and then ...

A major expansion of the private sector’s role in providing elective NHS care in England risks diverting finite staff and resources from elsewhere in the service, experts have warned. As part of a ...

We are spending countless hours on electronic health records scrolling through layers of data to find the information we need, receiving vital information through fax machines, and listening to ...

The US has reported its first human death from avian influenza H5N1 in a person who had been admitted to hospital in Louisiana after being exposed to a non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds.1 ...

Charles was born in London and was evacuated to Biggin Hill during the second world war. He studied medicine at University College London, then worked on the house staff at University College Hospital ...

As medical statisticians, we welcome revisions to the Declaration of Helsinki emphasising the importance of appropriate methods to reduce research waste.1 The declaration now states that rigorous ...

Improving the NHS has to be weighed alongside improving population health Two narratives emerged from Wes Streeting’s first appearance before the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee on ...

The prime minister, Keir Starmer, has unveiled new plans to radically transform the NHS in a bid to cut waiting lists.1 One new element is the promise that GPs will be able to order more tests ...

It was a familiar scene in the lead-up to Christmas: husbands looking lost in highly perfumed, dazzlingly lit shops. An expensive lipstick or cashmere scarf, seldom actually wanted, was bought as a ...

Authors, institutions, funders, and editors must be alert to the dangers A growing number of entities misrepresent themselves as scholarly journals for financial gain despite not meeting scholarly ...

The 1990s were characterised by a rise in teenage smoking rates. Nostalgia for that decade shouldn’t see us undo progress against this public health threat, writes Caroline Cerny The 1990s are firmly ...