Targeted NHS retention schemes have helped to reduce the number of doctors and other staff leaving the health service, NHS England has reported. NHS data show that one in 10 (10.1%) hospital and ...

NHS England published its priorities and operational planning guidance for 2025-26,12 outlining key improvement objectives for the NHS for the first time since Labour took office in 2024. Meanwhile, ...

Within hours of being sworn in, President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO).1 On 30 January 2025, just 10 days later, a ...

The Darzi review revealed billions of pounds worth of unmet maintenance needs and the shocking state of NHS buildings. Kathy Oxtoby speaks to doctors from the four UK nations about their experiences ...

Prevention bombshell” would have been a good cover line for The BMJ issue that included Martin and colleagues’ article1—a mushrooming cloud would be an effective representation of the unthinking creep ...

International women’s day falls on 8 March every year. As the outgoing president of the Medical Women’s Federation, I want this year’s celebration to be followed by action. The number of women doctors ...

The new US health secretary and noted vaccine critic Robert F Kennedy Jr has changed tack after drawing criticism last week for calling a fast spreading Texas measles outbreak “not unusual” at a Trump ...

Local and central government can do more to promote healthy housing, write Isobel Braithwaite and colleagues The quality and affordability of UK housing is poor relative to international ...

Sara Riggare highlights the importance of trust and dialogue when making treatment decisions I have been living with Parkinson’s disease for four decades and, as a result, am almost fluent in ...

I’m often amazed by the slim margins that separate success and failure. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Noah Lyles won the men’s 100 m sprint by just 0.005 seconds, with the top seven athletes all ...

Hospital consultants have demanded action to tackle the “unacceptable” treatment delays, avoidable harm, and excess deaths resulting from the number of patients being treated in corridors and other ...

Heart attacks and strokes rise exponentially with age and make a major contribution to increasing healthcare costs and lost productivity. In the UK more than 7 million people are living with ...