The General Medical Council is appealing to the High Court against a decision by a medical practitioners tribunal to suspend a consultant for 12 months for a “one-off” rape of a young woman instead of ...

The UK government’s tepid response to the House of Lords Food, Diet, and Obesity Committee report on the obesity crisis is concerning,1 particularly its refusal to exclude food companies from policy ...

Action is needed to mitigate disease outbreaks and challenge power imbalances, write Mosoka Papa Fallah and colleagues Countries across Africa are facing more frequent and concurrent infectious ...

Reform in Scotland fails to ease pressure on GPs A new deal for GPs in Scotland that promised to transform their working lives has been a failure, said a damning report from Audit Scotland. A contract ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.