The new NHS hospital buildings promised by former prime minister Boris Johnson will not be completed until at least a decade after the original deadline, the government has announced.1 The promise of ...

A legal challenge to a refusal by the UK General Medical Council to draw up guidance on safe and lawful practice for physician associates and anaesthesia associates is to be heard in the High Court ...

Dean’s profile of consultant cardiologist Rob Egdell is interesting and insightful.1 Unfortunately, it truly highlights how far training has fallen. Egdell acknowledges that the rotational nature of ...

What you need to know A 45 year old man presents to his general practitioner with a three month history of hoarse voice. The onset was over a short time and was predated by five days of coryzal ...

The new plan to improve NHS elective care includes creating and expanding surgical hubs.1 As a surgeon, I feel conflicted. It’s positive if patients with treatable conditions can move forward from the ...

Increasing numbers of doctors are struggling at work, while the support available to them is at risk. Emma Wilkinson investigates When Anne Noble, a GP in Sheffield, contacted NHS Practitioner Health ...

As a GP, patient care and integrity were the crucial attributes of Judith’s practice. She had a long track record of partnership roles, with a strong focus on the patient experience, probity, and ...

Raymund was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers in Belfast and entered Queen’s University Belfast to study medicine when he was 17, qualifying in 1954. He worked as a rotating house officer at ...

The concerning patient outcomes reported in Moscelli and colleagues’ study on nurse and doctor turnover1 underscore the critical problems with the training and retention of doctors in the NHS. The ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has reported a new case of clade Ib mpox in England, the sixth case since October. The patient, who is under specialist care at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS ...

Rates of cancer are now rising in Americans under 50, and particularly among women, a report from the American Cancer Society has said.12 While overall cancer mortality in the US continues to decline, ...

In a major blow to global health, the US administration has announced plans to withdraw from the World Health Organization. Kent Buse and colleagues propose urgent actions for the international ...