The family of a doctor who took his own life within hours of receiving an email from the General Medical Council (GMC) has failed in their bid to sue the GMC for damages over his death.1 Sridharan ...

The chairs of the BMJ Commission on the Future of Academic Medicine set out principles for transforming academic medicine and to help improve population and planetary health Academic medicine is in ...

The year is 1828. Anaesthesia is yet to be invented and tethered to an operating table in the centre of a crowded, putrid theatre at Guy’s Hospital, a patient screams at his surgeon to stop the ...

The announcement that NHS England (NHSE) will be scrapped may have surprised the mainstream media, but for many insiders there were indications of the direction of travel. The absence of any serious ...

I’ve worked in primary care, emergency care, and paediatrics. Every day I see people in mental distress—from depression to psychosis to post traumatic stress disorder. Recently, the UK Labour ...

The latest mass firings in critical US health services are short sighted, cruel, and ignorant, writes Esther Choo This week is National Public Health Week in the United States and perhaps the saddest ...

A month before Mahmoud Abu Nujaila, a doctor who worked with Médecins Sans Frontières at Gaza's Al-Awda hospital, was killed by an Israeli airstrike along with his colleagues, he wrote on a hospital ...

Campaigners who are taking the General Medical Council (GMC) to court alleging failure to properly regulate physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) have been cleared to submit new ...

The UK government should train and employ more health visitors and school nurses as part of a package of measures to tackle the rise in mental health problems among children and young people, a ...

The National Academy for Social Prescribing has recently announced that over 1800 general practices have joined “the parkrun practice initiative,” saying that this has “proven highly effective in ...

New measures and legislation offer an opportunity to safeguard children from sexualised, violent, and other age-inappropriate online content, writes Rachel de Souza Throughout my time as Children’s ...

More focus needed to improve PPI reporting in research Patient and public involvement (PPI) has become a key part of health and social care research in many countries with a focus on working with or ...