Last week Rachel Reeves, the chancellor of the exchequer, presented a budget designed to help the NHS, providing £22.6bn of extra funding over the next two years.1 Unfortunately, the main way of ...

NHS England has launched a new campaign emphasising the importance of dialling 999 as soon as stroke symptoms occur, after new data showed that on average people faced a wait of nearly an hour and a ...

A week before the chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered her first budget, the Nuffield Trust published analysis showing that the NHS in England was facing £4.8bn worth of unfunded cost ...

A coordinated international response is needed, write Alaha Nasari, Sammer Marzouk, and Samar Al-Hajj Israel’s recent large scale military operations1 in Lebanon have caused a displacement crisis of ...

Gun violence in the US is the leading cause of death among children and teenagers, drives down life expectancy, and cost the economy around $557bn in 2022, says a report from the Commonwealth Fund, a ...

I’ve been consulting in palliative medicine for 17 years. I’ve seen patients facing frightening diagnoses and hospital admission experience a loss of dignity and worry about burdening loved ones. The ...

Doctors’ leaders have warned that the newly announced increase in employers’ national insurance contributions could be the “straw that breaks the camel’s back” for general practices, forcing some to ...

The rogue breast surgeon Ian Paterson has told a coroner’s court that he did not seek specific consent for the cleavage sparing mastectomies he carried out because the operation was merely an ...

NHS England is piloting a new device that can be attached to a smartphone to enable nurses to capture live endoscopy examinations of the throat, as part of plans to rule out suspected throat cancer ...

On behalf of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland (APM), we welcome discussion around assisted dying. However, we have been misrepresented in comments made raised in ...

Experts and residents have called for better warning systems and clearer communication, after the deadliest episode of flooding in Spain’s modern history left more than 200 people dead. As of 1 ...

As a young researcher in psychiatry David Goldberg experienced two career defining revelations. The first was that the diagnostic system he had been taught was “top down,” dreamt up by committees of ...