How we train future clinicians has the potential to radically and sustainably improve healthcare for everyone. Current medical education has an overt biomedical focus that does not engage enough on ...

Chamber music can spur us to reflect on the experience of families and friends when a patient dies—but also to celebrate and grieve for loved ones of our own, says Desmond O’Neill To grieve is not ...

New guidance aims to improve consistency, reporting, and respect for people who have died before publication of their work Preparing academic work for publication can be a lengthy process.

Paediatric units are operating with an average 20% shortfall of resident doctors and trainees on shifts, according to a report from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).1 These ...

Evidence based guidelines work but are not universally applied Publication of the House of Lords’ report Preterm Birth: Reducing Risks and Improving Lives 1 coincides with the realisation that the UK ...

People in England and Wales are expected to live fewer years in good health than they did a decade previously, show data from the Office for National Statistics.1 The latest ONS figures reflect the ...

Burnett and colleagues advocate for dignifying “person centred and trauma informed accommodation in the community” for people seeking asylum.1 General practice is crucial in providing the “wrap around ...

A new report by the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee highlights the scandalous “medical misogyny” that has been affecting women in the UK for far too long.1 The report highlights an ...

The BMA’s Scottish General Practitioners Committee (SGPC) has set out a list of demands for the Scottish government to avert plans to ballot GPs on industrial action. The committee has produced a ...

New measures governing how clinical trials are carried out in the UK should make them more streamlined, flexible, and transparent, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has ...

The UK government has announced an indefinite ban on the use of puberty blockers for treating under 18s with gender dysphoria, after the Commission on Human Medicines advised that continuing to allow ...

Architectural health research could help us create happier and healthier built environments, writes Cleo Valentine Over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas1; the United Nations ...