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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said he will order the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to revise its recommendation, which has stood for seven decades, that fluoride be added ...

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 ...

Making lives better when times are hard can seem an insurmountable challenge. But local initiatives with joined-up working can have an impact, reports Emma Wilkinson Children born in 2008 in the UK ...

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 ...