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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard was born in Horsforth, West Yorkshire. From his boarding prep school (which he entered shortly before his fifth birthday) he won a scholarship to Epsom College. His maternal grandfather and ...

Faced with a row over guidance to improve consistency on sentencing by the courts, the British government chose a populist narrative. This sends a worrying message to public health professionals ...