NHS staff working in overstretched mental health and paediatric services are reporting high levels of stress, burnout, and emotional strain as they struggle to protect care standards. The Royal ...

Representatives at the BMA’s annual meeting have called for additional funding to meet the costs of delivering assisted dying services, emphasising that the money should not be drawn from existing ...

BMA representatives have voted to support GPs who refuse to prescribe medicines for hospital patients unless the GP has been properly informed and the treatment has been started and stabilised in ...

The word “frailty” once had the same meaning for doctors as it still does for the public. It summoned up an image of an emaciated older person, probably bent over, hobbling along with the aid of ...

The BMA and NHS trusts must do more collectively to prevent sexual harassment in NHS workplaces, doctors have urged. At the BMA’s annual meeting in Liverpool 98% of representatives voted in favour of ...

It can be hard to keep up with NHS reorganisations. Integrated care boards (ICBs) were created in July 2022, taking over the responsibility for commissioning healthcare from clinical commissioning ...

I’m in a WhatsApp group for doctors with cancer to share support and wisdom. My experience is less of a rollercoaster now, six years on from a life changing diagnosis, but I’m still living with a ...

The secretary of state for health and social care, Wes Streeting, has ordered a rapid national investigation into NHS maternity services in England to tackle “systemic problems dating back over 15 ...

The security of a career in medicine has declined over generations while the financial burden has grown, writes Luke Craddock Being a doctor in the UK is no longer a stable and well remunerated career ...

Long standing litigation against Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, over the addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin (oxycodone) seems to be resolved with a $7.4bn (£5.84bn; €6.38bn) ...

The rise of new and emerging nicotine products, including e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches, and heated tobacco products, threatens to undermine hard won public health gains made over the past 20 years, ...

More than 400 Gazans have reportedly been killed by Israeli forces while trying to access food and other humanitarian aid in repeated attacks that have taken place since the US and Israeli backed Gaza ...