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The government has pledged to “tackle bottlenecks in medical training pathways” by prioritising UK medical graduates for training places and creating 1000 additional specialty training posts within ...
The creation of neighbourhood health centres, announced last week in the government’s 10 year health plan,12 must not result in GP premises being “left to wither,” the chair of the BMA’s General ...
GPs in Northern Ireland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking collective action in an attempt to force improvements to the 2025-26 General Medical Services (GMS) contract which was imposed on ...
Robin was born in Welbeck Street, London, at a private hospital to Frank and Margery Marsh. He spent his early childhood in Persia, now Iran, where Frank was director of pathology for the ...
Many doctors are turning to portfolio careers to reduce burnout and improve morale, Elisabeth Mahase hears Patrice Baptiste, portfolio GP, says, “My portfolio career was born out of a desperate need ...
Laura Schmidt and colleagues identify systemic financial conflicts of interest that serve as a cautionary tale for users of medical guidelines Prescribing glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor ...
Sustainable change requires improved study design, market incentives, and patient involvement, write Kate Womersley and colleagues For too long, medical research has defaulted to male physiology, ...
Public health must reclaim digital spaces to boost trust Outbreaks of measles, which is both deadly and readily preventable, are symptoms of a global health system in trouble. Between 2022 and 2023, ...
A mosquito borne virus that causes mass livestock abortions has killed hundreds of people in East Africa—and climate change is accelerating its spread. Frank Burkybile reports on the growing threat of ...
Three former senior leaders at the NHS hospital where the neonatal nurse Lucy Letby worked have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. The three, who have not been named, have ...
We need high quality data to analyse outcomes Evidence suggests ethnic inequalities in cancer outcomes among children in the UK. A study of children with cancer between 1981 and 1996 showed no ...
Like an eagerly awaited summer blockbuster, the NHS 10 year plan carries high expectations, although initial reactions haven’t been particularly positive.1 The challenge is substantial, especially the ...