Vulnerable patients in England are at risk from cuts to NHS smoking cessation services, medical leaders have warned. In an open letter to NHS England, published in The BMJ ,1 senior figures from medi...

The death of a child in Liverpool after contracting measles is a “tragedy” that shows society is failing to protect children, the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)...

Resident doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in their campaign for full pay restoration. In response to the result, the BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee urged the ...

The government has unveiled its 10 year plan to transform the NHS in England, underpinned by housing more services under one roof in community settings to relieve pressure on hospitals, boosting use o...

Sets out the government’s 10 Year Health Plan for England.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has maintained its decision not to recommend two treatments for Alzheimer’s disease on the NHS, after concluding that they still do not dem...

Deaths from avoidable causes remain higher in England and Wales than before the covid-19 pandemic, with rates highest in areas of deprivation, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.1...

Increasing access to general practice through tools such as remote consultations is likely to reduce continuity of care and patient satisfaction, researchers have concluded. A report by the Institute...

A group of expert neurologists have expressed concerns at the European Commission’s (EC) decision to formally approve the Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab (Leqembi) despite uncertain benefits. Lecanemab, m...

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An error in ranking applicants for radiology specialty training programmes has led to job offers for some doctors being retracted. Resident doctors who applied for radiology were sent the outcomes of...

How has Brexit reshaped health in the UK? The final report in our Health and International Relations Monitor series, supported by the Health Foundation, tracks the ongoing impact from EU exit on…

Researchers have criticised the UK drug industry trade association’s decision to restore Novo Nordisk’s membership despite the company being subject to ongoing regulatory breaches during its two year ...

The number of people making five or more emergency visits to hospital a year with lung difficulties has almost tripled in some parts of England, an analysis has found. The charity Asthma + Lung UK sa...

A senior government minister wanted to “circumvent” the UK’s regulatory processes to expedite a proposal by the businessman James Dyson to supply ventilators to the NHS during the covid-19 pandemic, t...

England’s health ombudsman has made a renewed call for doctors to communicate “do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation” (DNACPR) decisions better to patients and families, following a case where ...

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 in...

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 hou...

Amanda Pritchard has today formally notified the NHS England Board of her decision to stand down as chief executive at the end of this financial year. Amanda has been chief executive since August 2021...

Doctors’ leaders have condemned a “catastrophic” error in the marking of a high stakes medical exam that left almost 300 candidates with an incorrect result. The error affected nearly a fifth (283 of...

Five years ago a BMJ investigation found that medical students were being let down by poor monitoring and responses to complaints of racism. Gareth Iacobucci repeated the exercise to see whether any p...

A major expansion of the private sector’s role in providing elective NHS care in England risks diverting finite staff and resources from elsewhere in the service, experts have warned. As part of a pa...

Almost one in eight phone calls made to NHS hospitals under the Martha’s rule programme have led to a potentially lifesaving change in a person’s treatment, NHS England has said. Early data from hosp...

­­Doctors are too often dismissive of women’s symptoms when they present for treatment for reproductive health conditions such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, and heavy menstrual bleeding, a parliament...

The historic vote by MPs has paved the way to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. Clare Dyer examines what effects the potential law change would have on the medical profession Terminally i...

Four months after GPs in England voted in favour of taking collective action over contractual terms and funding,1 local medical committee (LMC) representatives gathered for their annual conference on ...