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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...