People with long term health conditions are being left vulnerable to harm and burnout because of inadequate coordination of care across the NHS and care system, England’s patient safety watchdog has ...

The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recommended a targeted twice daily drug treatment that could help around 3000 women a year with advanced breast cancer in England and Wales ...

In his first sit-down television interview the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, claimed that he was “not familiar” with the ongoing cuts to state and local public health programs, adding that ...

Long queues are snaking outside pharmacies in major cities across Colombia as patients try to collect their drugs, only to be told that even basic medications are unavailable, as the country’s health ...

Revenue could reduce funding gaps and inequalities The UK’s health and social care services are increasingly strained by rising demands and widening health inequalities—in life expectancy, infant ...

In a recent BMJ podcast interview Clare Owen , director of the Medical Schools Council, discusses racism in medical education with Victor Adebowale , chair of the NHS Confederation ### Biographies ...

Going through fertility treatment can be physically and mentally exhausting, especially when working at the same time, but there are ways you can ease the strain, Abi Rimmer hears Divpreet Sacha, ...

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 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 UK government has announced plans for a new Health Data Research Service, which will give researchers a secure single access point to national scale datasets as well as NHS trust level data. The ...

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 ...

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 ...