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Reimagining vaccine confidence in the digital age

September 19, 2025

Occupational health guidance for hard of hearing colleagues

September 17, 2025

Emergency mental health innovations require evidence based, co-designed approaches

September 17, 2025

Mental health reforms must deliver integrated care

September 16, 2025

We must not ignore the plea for a sexual misconduct national reporting system

September 12, 2025

Betel nuts sweets in children: the bitter truth

September 10, 2025

Mind the gap: racism in research delivery

September 9, 2025

No excuses for not tackling racism and sexism

September 8, 2025

Tackling inequity: are we building inclusion or just enforcing conformity?

September 8, 2025

Storytelling, biography, and genograms

September 5, 2025

NHS 10 year plan: laboratory medicine’s role in the three shifts

September 4, 2025

NHS 10 year plan: fix current IT problems first

September 3, 2025

NHS 10 year plan: plus ça change

September 1, 2025

Without retention, the NHS’s 10 Year Plan will fail

August 28, 2025

Doctor in your pocket—a medicolegal black box?

August 27, 2025

Rectal examination is an important part of holistic assessment

August 22, 2025

Systemic changes needed for management reform

August 21, 2025

Improving NHS management: first fix the hostility to good management

August 20, 2025

Tackling health inequalities in dementia is a public health priority

August 18, 2025

Regulation of managers is possible—but keep it simple

August 18, 2025

Burden of dementia: oral health needs attention

August 13, 2025

Cadaveric dissection offers limited benefit at preclinical stage

August 11, 2025

Supporting Sudan’s next generation of doctors

August 11, 2025

Your next delivery

August 11, 2025

Ethical prioritisation in the face of global health cuts

August 11, 2025

US science funding cuts are a global health emergency

August 11, 2025

Intuition can reassure as well as sound alarm

August 5, 2025

Emergency care plan doesn’t just lack ambition, it tries to tackle the wrong causes of the problem

August 4, 2025

Emergency care plan underestimates the role of general practice

August 1, 2025

Gonorrhoea vaccination strategies should take into account all at risk and the potential for severe sequelae in women

August 1, 2025

Poor communication with patients: excluding people from their own healthcare conversations

July 31, 2025

Continuity of care: let’s not start a culture war between GPs

July 31, 2025

Physician and anaesthetic associates: remember the people behind the debate

July 30, 2025

Non-prescribed ketamine use is rising in the UK—including among under 16s

July 30, 2025

Can AI teach medicine? Not whether but how

July 29, 2025

Tackling differential attainment: simulation based and personalised learning

July 28, 2025

AI can aid learning, but educators cultivate judgment

July 28, 2025

Ambient scribing risks loss of the cognitive benefits of writing

July 25, 2025

“Big food” and football—a troubling alliance

July 24, 2025

Being undermined at work—resident doctors need a centralised escalation process

July 23, 2025

Advancing standardised reporting of patient and public involvement: a multistakeholder responsibility

July 22, 2025

Continuity in general practice: microteams are part of the solution

July 21, 2025

NHS needs a balanced recruitment and retention strategy

July 18, 2025

Blood transfusion safety: correct patient identification is essential

July 17, 2025

Towards a fairer UK medical training pathway: structured integration of international medical graduates

July 16, 2025

We should be wary of preferential treatment for UK graduates

July 16, 2025

Pandemic response: no one is immune to getting things wrong

July 9, 2025

Problematic studies have huge impact on healthcare evidence

July 8, 2025

Overdiagnosis: expansion of medical diagnoses into personal realms

July 7, 2025

Invest in injury prevention to reduce avoidable deaths and demand on NHS

July 4, 2025

Gabapentinoid pharmacovigilance in Africa

July 3, 2025

Doctors are graduating without a post in sight

July 2, 2025

Stop early intervention discharge from psychiatric care

July 1, 2025

The predicted—and predictable—brain drain is here

June 30, 2025

Why the EU AI Act falls short on preserving what matters in health

June 27, 2025

Shared care prescribing for ADHD medication—benefits prevail and risks can be managed

June 26, 2025

Anticipatory care has an important role in general practice

June 25, 2025

China’s malaria elimination: the role of determination and collective will

June 23, 2025

Outsourcing diagnosis of ADHD: the real danger is abandoning care

June 20, 2025

Psychosis related violence: core mental health teams need to be adequately resourced and staffed

June 18, 2025

Providing information on widening access initiatives to schoolchildren

June 17, 2025

NHS reorganisation: don’t forget healthcare public health

June 16, 2025

Widening access to medical school: students need ongoing focused support

June 13, 2025

Widening participation criteria must be harmonised across UK medical schools

June 11, 2025

Prostate cancer: polygenic risk scores have not shown clinical benefit

June 10, 2025

AI can’t burn out but also can’t care

June 9, 2025

Predatory journals: we must also strengthen readers’ critical thinking skills

June 6, 2025

Incorporating real patients in medical education

June 5, 2025

Prescribing parkrun: helping people to the start line

June 3, 2025

Parkrun exemplifies demedicalisation

June 3, 2025

Social prescribing or community referral? Either way, let’s do it

May 27, 2025

Social prescribing improves health and is cost effective

May 23, 2025

Prevention: the law of inverse relevance

May 22, 2025

GMC clarification on sanctions for climate activists

May 21, 2025

Boosting team morale—recognise wins and spread joy

May 21, 2025

Rethinking clinical trial design and electronic health record systems could improve clinical research in the UK

May 20, 2025

Smartphones and children: teenage mental health is suffering

May 19, 2025

Palliative care commission must focus on ageing population

May 16, 2025

UK’s palliative care commission offers global insight

May 16, 2025

Poor workforce planning blocks access to palliative care

May 15, 2025

Smartphones and children: algorithm driven social media should be the focus of action

May 15, 2025

Antiracism in healthcare education: moving from theory to practice

May 14, 2025

Suggesting the world is “post-covid” contributes to an unwitting shift in research priorities

May 14, 2025

We must critically assess advance care planning and electronic palliative care coordination systems

May 12, 2025

Palliative care commission: recognising and supporting unpaid carers

May 12, 2025

Efforts to improve end-of-life care must focus on marginalised communities

May 8, 2025

Public health approach to gambling related harms

May 7, 2025

From fossil dependency to fiscal collapse: the unspoken cost of inaction

May 7, 2025

We need to remind ourselves of the core purpose of immigration detention

May 6, 2025

Prioritising nuclear preparedness: are we making ourselves safer or sicker?

May 6, 2025

Confusion between population risk prediction and individual disease

May 2, 2025

Better communication about vaccines could tackle scepticism

May 2, 2025

Patient passports have the potential to improve patient care

May 1, 2025

Clinical practice is more than adhering to protocol

April 30, 2025

Nuclear strikes: educating the public in emergency healthcare tasks

April 30, 2025

Cost of coal: Trump’s energy policy could burden the US economy

April 29, 2025

Nuclear confrontations: regional collaboration will be needed

April 29, 2025

Abolishing NHS England will make only modest savings

April 28, 2025

Public health belongs in local government

April 28, 2025

Specialty recruitment: points mean prizes

April 25, 2025
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