Four fifths of the money spent in the UK on healthcare in people’s last year of life goes on hospital care, an analysis has found, underlining the urgent need to overhaul palliative care services and ...

The adage “health is wealth” applies to the country and to individuals. While politicians debate conventional economic growth, it’s evident that the increasing impact of population ill health will be ...

Jill Van der Knaap (née Close) was born in London in 1943. Despite coming from a family with no medical background, modest means, and negligible influence, she made it to the London Hospital Medical ...

Peter Fenwick and Caspar Throughout his career, neuropsychiatrist Peter Fenwick sought explanations for human experiences and consciousness that went beyond conventional models of brain function. He ...

A new global evidence review on leadership outcomes bolsters advocacy for gender equality in the current context of backlash against rights and equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts, writes Jocalyn ...

Having more pre-legislative stages would allow better quality debate Private members’ bills are introduced by individual members of parliament, rather than cabinet ministers or peers. One type of ...

Online pharmacies in England, Wales, and Scotland will have to carry out stricter checks on people who are buying weight loss drugs, under new regulatory guidance. Pharmacists will no longer be able ...

The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and ...

An independent investigation by a panel of 14 international experts into the cause of injury and death of the babies Lucy Letby is convicted of murdering or attempting to murder has claimed that there ...

The BMJ ’s Commission on the Future of Academic Medicine may be one of the most important processes ever undertaken to tackle the challenges of generalists everywhere.1 O’Ryan and colleagues outline ...

AI presents some exciting opportunities for the NHS, but leaders need to drive the technology and not the other way round, reports Chris Stokel-Walker Artificial intelligence will be a gamechanger ...

Last week the Public Accounts Committee produced an excoriating report on the financial sustainability of the NHS in England.1 It criticised the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS ...