Actively challenging racism takes courage, Abi Rimmer hears “Racism, in all forms, has no place in healthcare. However, it does exist, and it leaves a devastating impact on colleagues and patients and ...

The current model for managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) generally considers inhalers from the same therapeutic class to be clinically equivalent.1 When a long-acting muscarinic ...

The House of Lords has backed GPs’ calls to be exempt from a proposed tax hike that could “threaten” vital services. In October 2024 the chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, announced an ...

Health authorities have yet to identify the cause of outbreaks of a disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo that the World Health Organization has called “a significant public health threat.” Last ...

Some English words are more euphonious than others, and some are more cacophonic. Here I discuss the latter, the ugliest English words, of which I have analysed 415 from a large number of published ...

The BMA has agreed “in principle” to an £889m funding uplift to GPs’ contracts in England this year, on the condition that the government commits to negotiating a completely new national contract ...

A coroner in Surrey has raised concerns about the role of physician associates (PAs) in the NHS in response to the death of a woman with abdominal pain who was wrongly diagnosed as having a nosebleed.

Doctors who were incorrectly told they passed a crucial medical exam only to be told 18 months later that they had failed have now been told that their applications to higher specialty training this ...

Consultants at London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital, one of the world’s leading ophthalmology centres, have voiced serious concern over the leadership of the NHS trust, alleging a “culture of fear” and a ...

Obesity strategy should not be built around a single drug Tirzepatide (Mounjaro) has had a remarkable journey to prominence since its UK marketing authorisation in 2023.1 Approved for glycaemic ...

As a doctor with lived experience of an eating disorder, I know that there is a huge amount we can do to educate ourselves better about eating disorders to improve patient care and experiences, writes ...

McCartney makes many cogent, well argued points about how potential legislation as a result of a private member’s success is essentially a lottery.1 Like it or not, this is our parliamentary system, ...