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 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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The death toll continues to rise in central Myanmar after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit South East Asia on 28 March. Over 2700 people have died so far, with another 4521 injured and 441 reported ...