Last year’s Review of patient safety across the health and care landscape proposed a number of structural changes to the roles of existing national healthcare organisations. Among these was a recommen...

Geriatric medicine is challenging – people present with multiple problems at the same time, and case studies provide a good way to discuss this complexity. This book describes 30 cases of older people...

This document sets out the revised responsibilities for Freedom to Speak Up across the NHS.

GPs increasingly observe, with good reason, that primary care absorbs all the risk and demand that the rest of the health and social care system cannot cope with. But those of us working in acute hosp...

New official figures show that women’s healthy life expectancy has hit an all-time low with women now spending a smaller proportion of their life in good health than men.

Justice in health is often conflated with health equity, a topic that has given rise to an extensive literature in recent decades. Research on the social determinants of health has led to innumerable ...

Val McDermid’s new book evokes an earlier Scot’s love of the bleak.

Vacancy - George Eastman Visiting Professorship The University invites expressions of interest in the George Eastman Visiting Professorship for the academic years 2026/2027 and 2027/2028, in an area

January is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, which is led by the Alzheimer Association of Canada to increase focus on education, the reduction of stigma, and the support of people living with dementia. For...

Understanding Health, Illness and Society: A Patient-Centred Approach to Healthcare : Paton, Alexis: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the...

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This is "Citizen-led Public Health: A Story of People, Place, Politics and Power by Professor Kate Ardern" by University Of Salford on Vimeo, the home…

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By 2029 the ONS expects more deaths than births

Using lower-paid workers to plug the gaps left by a failure to hire registered nurses damages safety, new research has shown