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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

An army of SHOs: the result of bottlenecks in UK postgraduate medical training

April 25, 2025

Countries should strengthen their health information systems

April 24, 2025

Postgraduate training crisis: a moral issue

April 24, 2025

Prevention advice is a core function of general practice

April 23, 2025

Sacrificing prevention to save primary care

April 23, 2025

Concerns about the approval of lecanemab for Alzheimer’s disease

April 22, 2025

Reforming diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives to prioritise evidence based strategies

April 9, 2025

Racialised health inequalities in maternity care

April 7, 2025

Climate activists should be applauded as advocates for public health

April 7, 2025

Stalled life expectancy: social inequalities can kill

April 4, 2025

Tackling obesity: government must learn from failures in tobacco control

April 3, 2025

Improving gynaecology with trauma informed care

April 2, 2025

Northern Ireland needs a practitioner health service

April 1, 2025

HIV in primary care: further considerations

April 1, 2025

System-wide reform needed to tackle the root causes of burnout

March 28, 2025

Children will suffer from changes to US research system

March 26, 2025

Increasing suicides of female healthcare workers indicate a population and economy at risk

March 25, 2025

Preventing ill health requires dismantling of the structures that have failed

March 25, 2025

Trump 2.0—a backwards step for women’s sexual and reproductive rights

March 24, 2025

Art of “holding patient care in general practice” is key to survival of the NHS

March 24, 2025

Revolution in academic medicine: reducing bureaucratic barriers

March 20, 2025

Climate activism: a necessity to protect public health

March 20, 2025

“Rule of three” for medical decision making

March 13, 2025

Being reckless with public health is an efficient way to cause outbreaks

March 10, 2025

Severing the link between gambling advertising and harm

March 6, 2025

Deadly disease outbreaks in Africa underscore the need for US WHO membership

March 5, 2025

Prevention in primary care: more of the same is not the answer

March 5, 2025

Sacrificing population health for the medical industry: a distortion of priorities

March 4, 2025

Assisted dying legislation: private member’s bills and the need for more research

February 28, 2025

Losing touch with NHS reality: government on trajectory to two tier service

February 27, 2025

Adult social care reform must include prevention

February 25, 2025

Prevention and a community focus are integral to general practice

February 14, 2025

We need a functioning national illness service

February 11, 2025

Regional and national disparities in bed numbers are stark

February 10, 2025

Academic medicine: integrating community insights and equity

February 7, 2025

Sexual harassment: prioritising safety at work

February 7, 2025

Social factors are crucial to encouraging physical activity

February 6, 2025

We undervalue funerals at our peril

February 5, 2025

Would pandemic responses be better directed from central government?

February 5, 2025

Predatory journals: who should we blame?

February 4, 2025

Revolutionising academic medicine must include communities and patients

February 4, 2025

Carbon effectiveness in healthcare is long overdue

February 3, 2025

Space(s) for medical education

January 31, 2025

Medical education research needs attention

January 31, 2025

Understanding intergenerational differences should be part of medical education

January 30, 2025

CPR: treating our own fear of death?

January 30, 2025

Storytelling as a tool for teaching paediatric concepts

January 27, 2025

Direct-to-consumer genetic tests also need to be regulated

January 24, 2025

Getting assisted dying conversations right for patients

January 24, 2025
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