The number of people dying prematurely after long waits in hospital emergency departments before admission rose by a fifth in England last year, an analysis has found. The analysis by the Royal ...

NHS England is making its last call for evidence for a review on postgraduate medical education.1 There have been dozens of similar reviews in my 35 years as a doctor, but this one has a chance to ...

At a conference in Hong Kong last year almost every presentation enthused about the potential of artificial intelligence. The conference wasn’t even about AI, the great global hope to solve every ...

MPs have criticised the lack of a clear plan for the forthcoming abolition of NHS England and the halving of staff in integrated care boards across the country, demanding that the government set out ...

The United Nations aid chief has rebuked Israel’s proposed new plan for militarily controlled aid distribution for Gaza, describing it as a “fig leaf for further violence and displacement” of ...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has said that it cannot support proposed legislation in its current form that would make assisted dying legal in England and Wales. The college issued a briefing on ...

A report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Doctors of the World UK (DOTW) has called for the closure of Wethersfield, a site that houses male asylum seekers, because of its unsuitability and the ...

In early April 2020, staff at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust gathered to prepare for the wave of covid-19 patients they knew were coming their way. The UK’s first lockdown had been announced a ...

The US health secretary’s campaign slogan echoed that of his boss, Donald Trump. But what does Robert F Kennedy Jr mean by “Make America Healthy Again”—and can he succeed? Simon Williams reports ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research There’s certainly a gap in the market for an effective third or fourth line antihypertensive. A trial of lorundrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, found a ...

Higginson and Ramjeeawon emphasise the importance of timely, multiprofessional, skilled palliative care to improve outcomes for patients and carers.1 They touch on the need to ensure that the ...

BMA ballots members on strike action over pay The BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee in England will ballot its members on taking industrial action over pay, stating that “no doctor today is worth less ...