The General Medical Council (GMC) plans to appeal against a tribunal’s finding that a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist’s fitness to practise is not currently impaired, although six years ago ...

The United Nations has called for “justice and answers” after the bodies of eight Palestinian medics, six first responders, and one UN staff member—still in their uniforms and gloves—were recovered ...

The BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee (RDC) has reached an agreement with the government over how exception reporting in England will be reformed, officially ending the union’s dispute with the ...

General practitioners will be able to prescribe the weight loss injection tirzepatide (Mounjaro) to “prioritised patient cohorts” from 23 June, NHS England has said. New interim commissioning guidance ...

The latest major reorganisation of the NHS’s government departments and central agencies1 begs the hypothetical question of which functions can best or only be served by central bodies operating at ...

Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care has hit a record low, with overall satisfaction falling for the fifth consecutive year, an analysis has shown. The latest British Social Attitudes ...

I spend a lot of time teaching communication skills, although I prefer to call them interactional skills, which suggests more of a two way street. Much of what I cover relates to speaking and ...

Tony Frais found himself unprepared for the diagnosis of severe depression, and for the challenge of trying different treatments Waking in the middle of a dream, I felt a palpable click in my brain.

Christian Ip-Yam was born in Mauritius, the eldest of four sons. He attended Royal College Port Louis, a prestigious state grammar school in the island’s capital. Being academically gifted and ...

Healthcare services, patients, and families can work better together to improve care transitions, writes Helen Cowan My husband lives with a spinal cord injury. Hospital admission can be traumatic ...

Roger was born in Bournemouth and took a gap year—travelling across Africa alone and meeting his parents in the Middle East where they were on holiday—before going to Cambridge. After qualifying from ...

We have a capacity problem in general practice. There are too few GPs, either as partners or employed, for the number of patients who need looking after. This is despite there being GPs unable to find ...