In his recent report on the NHS, Ara Darzi said that adult social care was outside his formal remit except “to the extent that it impacts on the NHS,” adding that it was “impossible to understand what ...

Campaigners say that coroners’ reports on preventing future deaths represent a missed opportunity to improve patient safety. But there are signs that systemic issues are gaining recognition, reports ...

The United Nations 2024 Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance needs bold targets, clear indicators, and strengthened country capacities to make progress, write ...

Pregnancy surrogates seem to have a higher risk of developing complications such as postpartum haemorrhage and severe pre-eclampsia and are more likely to give birth prematurely, research from Canada ...

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has made a formal apology to Canada’s First Nations peoples for the role physicians played in a history marked by discrimination, substandard care, medical ...

A few years ago I wrote an article about Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,1 the book by Robert Louis Stevenson that everyone knows about even if they haven’t read it. The novel depicts a respectable physician ...

In a survey reported in June, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) asked for its members’ views on physician associates (PAs) in general practice.1 In the light of the responses the ...

If public health prevention and medical interventions are two edges of the health triangle, then host resilience is the often overlooked third edge. While your recent editorial on the rise in deaths ...

The killings by Valdo Calocane have shaken our society. Unfortunately, the reviews by Nottinghamshire Police and the Care Quality Commission fail to tackle the root causes of the rare, but devastating ...

A focus on rights can help improve children’s oral health globally Oral diseases are a leading contributor to the overall burden of non-communicable diseases, reflecting a global crisis in oral health ...

Spectacles, suits, Taylor Swift, and Old Trafford. The register of interests of the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, has now precipitated a reverse turn.1 The newspapers swooped on the shopping list ...

Our friend Mazin Mirza was born on 6 November 1992 and raised in Leicester, son to Ather and Badri Mirza. He was keen to pursue a career as a physician, and first attended the University of Leicester ...