The way we treat staff working in the healthcare system is crucial to the success of any reform, say Isabelle Brown and Laura Turner The NHS workforce is under considerable operational pressure at ...

AI therapy apps are increasingly being offered to patients needing mental health support as services struggle to keep up with demand. Alexander Mafi explores the advantages and possible pitfalls of ...

A lifelong approach is needed for safe and personalised care Achieving safe, personalised, and equitable maternal health services with a lifelong focus is not a new vision,1 yet data suggest we are ...

Higginson and Ramjeeawon emphasise the urgent need to tackle inequality in access to hospice and end-of-life care.1 Central to this effort must be a deliberate focus on those living at the ...

In a surprising ruling, the administration of US president Donald Trump has defended the abortion pill mifepristone against an attempt to restrict its supply by mail to people in three states. Idaho, ...

A role for primary care Advances in intensive care medicine have improved survival rates, yet post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remains a prevalent and often underdiagnosed consequence among ...

As a co-founder of the British Paediatric Respiratory Group at the University of Edinburgh, and later as professor of child health at the University of Leicester, Hamish Simpson helped to establish ...

The NHS Race and Health Observatory (RHO) has agreed to collaborate with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to tackle persistent and systemic ethnic health inequalities. The ...

Five Planned Parenthood affiliates have sued Donald Trump’s administration over new restrictions tied to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention programme of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).1 ...

Acute ischemic stroke is a leading global cause of death and disability. Intravenous thrombolysis was the first acute treatment developed for ischemic strokes. First with alteplase and now with ...

Francis and colleagues’ summary of the NICE clinical guideline on gambling related harms is an excellent synopsis of a complex piece of guidance in a difficult and emerging space.1 Most public health ...

Two children from Gaza who arrived in London on 26 April for urgent medical treatment were the first medical evacuees from the region to the UK since the conflict between Hamas and Israel broke out on ...