I recently had an amazing time when I was invited to speak at a primary school careers day. We played with plastic bones and passed around joint replacements and intramedullary nails. I explained that ...

The UK government has announced plans to slash £5bn from the country’s welfare bill by 2030 as part of radical reforms designed to help more people with disabilities or long term sickness back into ...

Reorganisation threatens to distract managers and staff from work to improve patient care In the end, enough was enough. Having promised not to undertake a top-down reorganisation of the NHS, that is ...

Doctors and medical staff in Gaza have recounted the night they endured after Israel launched airstrikes across the strip in the early hours of 18 March, killing at least 400 people and inundating ...

Dissecting cadavers is a mainstay of medical education, but it relies on donors and poses ethical and other challenges. Roshni Shastri and Crispin Wiles argue that modern teaching has moved on, but ...

Cases of mpox disease have increased in Uganda over the past six weeks, surpassing those of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), says the World Health Organization (WHO). In the weeks spanning ...

Body cameras and panic alarms in healthcare settings could act as deterrents and reactive solutions to abusive incidents, writes Caroline Kamau-Mitchell Doctors and healthcare staff need better ...

NHS England (NHSE) was always an uneasy compromise, caught between the NHS and ministers. Designed as the NHS headquarters and free to operate without day-to-day political involvement, it is ...

The number of people making five or more emergency visits to hospital a year with lung difficulties has almost tripled in some parts of England, an analysis has found. The charity Asthma + Lung UK ...

Austerity harms health and must be reversed The headline of a recent BBC article, “UK death rate ‘reaches record low,’” puts a positive spin on mortality data, suggesting the UK has emerged from a ...

Adults with long term conditions should have their body mass index (BMI) recorded annually, with additional waist-to-height ratio measurements for those with a BMI under 35, draft National Institute ...

Performative politics that will disrupt the health service when patients most need it On 13 March, the UK prime minister announced that the Labour government will scrap NHS England—the national body ...