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Scarlett McNally: Clinical audit needs a shake-up

July 17, 2026

Inappropriate access of patient records is damaging for the NHS

July 17, 2026

The beautiful game versus our favourite drug

July 15, 2026

Place based working and devolved decision making could be the right prescription for health and social care

July 14, 2026

Schools need to be retrofitted for future heatwaves

July 14, 2026

Rammya Mathew: I’m delivering good care, but can I deliver neighbourhood care?

July 14, 2026

Trust in doctors and nurses remains high, but patients are turning elsewhere

July 14, 2026

The paradox of Abundance: Hafeez Lakhani’s novel and Riz Ahmed’s series Bait on the cost of the immigrant dream

July 13, 2026

Doctors who play together, stay together

July 10, 2026

Amos maternity review methods compounded harm for families

July 9, 2026

General purpose AI . . . and other research

July 9, 2026

The CLOUD Act: NHS data must be safeguarded from US interests

July 8, 2026

David Oliver: The “home good, hospital bad” credo is a false binary

July 8, 2026

John Launer: I hope GPs will continue to value “mosaic care”

July 7, 2026

Women’s and men’s health strategies offer a shared agenda for reform

July 7, 2026

When I use a word . . . Medical skepticism

July 7, 2026

The UK’s social media ban is a gamble in the face of uncertainty

July 7, 2026

Helen Salisbury: Missed appointments and missingness

July 7, 2026

Ebola control is weakened by mistrust and cultural insensitivity

July 6, 2026

Andy Burnham could apply lessons from Manchester to create a healthier Britain with a stronger economy

July 3, 2026

Assessing the early effects of Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Act on adolescent social media use

July 1, 2026

Milburn report: Young people shouldn’t need a diagnosis to access mental health and employment support

July 1, 2026

The Mann review: Avoiding the risk of asymmetric anti-racism policy

July 1, 2026

Why the GMC should not retain a right of appeal against MPTS decisions

June 30, 2026

The UK’s visa brake will limit Sudan’s healthcare recovery

June 30, 2026

Nottingham families were right about maternity failings; now ministers must listen to their calls for a statutory public inquiry

June 29, 2026

The Dutch hospital system offers lessons for building resilience and trust in health systems

June 29, 2026

To improve maternity services we must confront the damaging ideology that prizes “normal childbirth” over safe care

June 29, 2026

Impact of financial incentives . . . and other research

June 25, 2026

Early data from Australia indicate that social media companies can’t be relied on to protect children

June 24, 2026

Australia’s social media ban has not yet disrupted the status quo

June 24, 2026

Social media restrictions require timely and coordinated evaluation

June 24, 2026

Policies focused narrowly on reducing immigration risk unintended consequences for the NHS

June 24, 2026

John Launer: Anger in the consultation room

June 24, 2026

What does it mean to recover from long covid?

June 24, 2026

Scarlett McNally: Longevity requires a focus on living more healthily, not just living longer

June 23, 2026

Helen Salisbury: Prioritising frailty

June 23, 2026

UK Biobank case reveals the need for mandatory accreditation of trusted research environments

June 19, 2026

Valdo Calocane inquiry offers valuable lessons for overhauling mental health services

June 17, 2026

When I use a word . . . The Devil’s Medical Dictionary

June 17, 2026

Data sharing must evolve towards data sovereignty

June 15, 2026

American Diabetes Association controversy: Activism is necessary to protect scientific freedom

June 12, 2026

Fitness to practice tribunals for sexual misconduct are unfit for purpose

June 12, 2026

Prisons: A missing front in England’s HIV action plan

June 11, 2026

Avoiding central line complications . . . and other research

June 11, 2026

Trump administration has its sights set on destroying international research collaborations

June 10, 2026

DRC has strengthened its response to Ebola – but conflict and funding cuts are testing its capacity

June 10, 2026

John Launer: The health benefits of European collaboration

June 10, 2026

Matt Morgan: Hope as a direction of travel

June 10, 2026

A London Lark Rising: the story of the people and places of the East India Company

June 9, 2026

Helen Salisbury: GP list cleansing

June 9, 2026

Rammya Mathew: The sleep fairy scandal is a wake-up call for public health

June 9, 2026

AI warfare demands a new era of humanitarian law

June 9, 2026

Partha Kar: NHS workforce planning is missing clarity and direction

June 9, 2026

Is Britain’s health establishment prepared for a populist government?

June 8, 2026

Fit notes and economic inactivity: reforming the form is not enough

June 5, 2026

After remarkable progress, newborn, child, and adolescent survival is now at risk

June 4, 2026

Safer maternity care requires learning from the full breadth of staff and family experiences

June 4, 2026

A lack of accountability leaves medical students vulnerable to harassment and assault on placement

June 3, 2026

The single patient record: a laudable aim, at risk of mistakes that could derail it

June 3, 2026

Prostate cancer: The UK National Screening Committee is right to recommend against population screening

June 2, 2026

Health Bill reforms would silence patient voice in the NHS

June 2, 2026

A single, mandatory warning label on unhealthy foods is key to a joined-up approach to obesity

June 2, 2026

ADHD: The government must finally commit to improving support

May 29, 2026

Maintaining weight loss with tirzepatide . . . and other research

May 28, 2026

Enhanced Games: Bold claims, weak evidence, and serious risks

May 28, 2026

The story of aluminium containing vaccines is bigger than any one study

May 28, 2026

The DRC Ebola outbreak has exposed the consequences of global health underfunding

May 27, 2026

Streeting’s time as health secretary: a missed opportunity

May 27, 2026

David Oliver: The use of advanced practitioners on doctors’ rotas raises wider questions

May 27, 2026

Scarlett McNally: Surgeons and anaesthetists are burnt out, but their teams can help

May 27, 2026

John Launer: Elegy for the Tavistock

May 27, 2026

Helen Salisbury: Goodbye, Mr Streeting

May 26, 2026

Trump and RFK Jr have a new approach to global health: holding vulnerable people to ransom

May 22, 2026

Fear as policy: the health harms of immigration enforcement

May 22, 2026

PMOS: What’s in a name? Everything.

May 20, 2026

Healthcare’s moral emergency: reconnecting healthcare with its mission and purpose

May 20, 2026

WHO’s nuclear war assessment needs an update to reflect current threats

May 20, 2026

How should the next WHO director general confront the new world order?

May 20, 2026

Ambiguous guideline recommendations harm patient care

May 15, 2026

Why I can no longer be silent in the face of antisemitism in the NHS

May 14, 2026

One pill post stroke . . . and other research

May 14, 2026

Rammya Mathew: Recognising neurodiversity is important—but at what cost?

May 13, 2026

Proactive drug safety surveillance should be at the heart of the new Health Data Research Service

May 13, 2026

David Oliver: Overcrowded emergency departments are bad news for patients with delirium and dementia

May 13, 2026

Hantavirus outbreak should reset WHO’s default approach to airborne risk

May 12, 2026

Helen Salisbury: How to make patients feel safe

May 12, 2026

Matt Morgan: It’s bland, inoffensive, and makes no difference—why tofu leadership should be off the NHS menu

May 12, 2026

We can’t explain the UK’s declining healthy life expectancy without talking about austerity

May 12, 2026

Medical ethics education must not end at graduation

May 12, 2026

Women’s health strategy: neighbourhood services are central to reducing health inequalities

May 12, 2026

When I use a word . . . Centenarians

May 8, 2026

The US-Israeli war is driving a displacement crisis in Iran

May 8, 2026

The inflamed new adaptation of Wuthering Heights misses the book’s elemental understanding of body and mind

May 8, 2026

AI is making clinical reasoning optional—and that should worry us

May 7, 2026

Politicised narratives about cousin marriage risk undermining progress

May 7, 2026

The royal colleges have a lot to offer a changing NHS but are an undervalued asset

May 6, 2026

In an uncertain world, investment in health is crucial for security

May 5, 2026

Patients are struggling to access care as Ukraine emerges from its most brutal winter

May 1, 2026

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is understudied in preventive vaccine trials

April 30, 2026
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