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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

US presidential campaign Donald Trump declared that “the most beautiful word in the dictionary today is the word ‘tariff.’” His definition of a tariff is a tax that a government imposes on foreign ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has decided to reconsult on draft guidance for Alzheimer’s treatments donanemab and lecanemab, six months after initially rejecting the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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