Nottingham University Hospitals NHS trust is investigating allegations that healthcare staff illegally accessed medical records of the victims of a stabbing attack that left three people dead. Barnaby ...

Multifaceted actions are needed to better identify and challenge underlying patriarchal and socioeconomic factors affecting ...

PAs want robust research evaluating their practice, but adequate funding is needed, write Tamara S Ritsema and Amy Donaldson-Perrott Over the past year, a firestorm of debate has been swirling around ...

Heart attacks and strokes rise exponentially with age and make a major contribution to increasing healthcare costs and lost productivity. In the UK more than 7 million people are living with ...

The BMA has announced plans to take legal action over an exam error that left some doctors facing the risk of unemployment. The error affected nearly 300 candidates who sat part 2 of the membership of ...

For the first time ever the UK has more female than male doctors, with 164 440 women (50.04%) and 164 195 men (49.96%) registered with a licence to practise, show data from the General Medical Council ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has decided to reconsult on draft guidance for Alzheimer’s treatments donanemab and lecanemab, six months after initially rejecting the ...

Stephen Powis, NHS England’s national medical director and one of the government’s most prominent communicators during the covid-19 pandemic, is to step down this summer.1 His departure, announced on ...

Malcolm Faulk was a pioneering forensic psychiatrist who was instrumental in the development of regional secure units, which were developed to bridge the gap between prisons and the NHS. In 1972 Faulk ...

Hospital consultants have urged the BMA to lobby for a national, anonymous reporting structure for staff who experience sexual harassment at work. Doctors at the BMA’s UK consultants annual conference ...

To bake good cookies, start with good cookie dough. To use a different metaphor, to build a brick wall, take a large collection of bricks—all the same size and in perfect shape—and line them up neatly ...

In healthcare we trust—or do we? A breakdown in trust, like the schism in the transatlantic alliance, should make us think again about whether the current model requires reinvention. An anonymous ...