Waters reports that the planned expansion of medical training places risks causing the medical education system to collapse.1 As specialty training competitions ratios continue climbing,2 I find ...

Hospitals in areas with the most people out of work because of ill health will be prioritised for expanding the high intensity theatre (HIT) model to reduce waiting lists for surgery, the government ...

Waters discusses concerns around the planned expansion of medical school places.1 The NHS needs more doctors and more clinical educators to meet the needs of tomorrow. With the increasing clinical ...

More teenagers are showing signs of “problematic” social media use since the covid pandemic, raising “significant” concerns about long term health outcomes, says the World Health Organization (WHO).

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 ...