Widespread fears over the meaning of the Trump administration’s January foreign aid freeze gave way to shock and despair this week as the US government permanently cancelled funding for nearly 10 000 ...

Electronic medical records (EMR) have transformed healthcare in the past two decades. Their introduction was pioneered by a handful of determined visionaries, led on the clinical side in the UK by the ...

It’s time to move away from talking about “non-pharmaceutical interventions” The covid-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of public health interventions such as contact tracing. The expression ...

Like many doctors working beyond retirement age, I now work for various institutions within the NHS and outside it, including universities. They’re all splendid organisations in many ways, but they ...

For the first time in four years, negotiations between the Department of Health and Social Care and GP representatives in England have resulted in agreed changes to the GP contract, rather than ...

The European Medicines Association (EMA) has upheld its decision to recommend the Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab despite concerns that any clinical benefits are small and there is a risk of brain swelling ...

Patients’ safety is being compromised because a growing number of doctors are feeling severely tired at work, medical defence experts have warned. The Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that longer ...

Martin and colleagues present an unnecessary dichotomy between access to healthcare and prevention of illness.1 The reasons why there are not enough general practitioners effectively recognising and ...