Plans to reform elective care must avoid the trappings of over-investigation and fragmented and inappropriate care, writes Ella Hubbard “We need more activity, and less waste,” says Wes Streeting in ...

Adriel Chen and Devi Sridhar discuss the outbreak of Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome in 2020 and consider what lessons we can learn In mid-March 2020 and into April 2020, paediatric wards ...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has withdrawn from a key hospital in Sudan’s capital Khartoum following months of violent attacks on patients and staff.1 The aid organisation announced the “very ...

Decision to treat surgically should be weighed against the rate of complications The introduction of organised cervical screening programmes has enabled the early diagnosis and treatment of cervical ...

Has treating patients in corridors and cloakrooms become “normalised”? Jacqui Wise reports A nurse forced to change an incontinent patient with dementia beside a vending machine and a patient dying ...

Next week the US president elect, Donald Trump, will take office with a mandate to make radical changes to the government’s approach to medicine and public health. Health insurance coverage in ...

While he was a senior house officer in Ashington, Northumberland, Mike Snow developed open tuberculosis. He had a considerable amount of time off work, including 100 days of intramuscular injections ...

Luke Craddock describes what it’s like working in an emergency department as winter pressures bite I’ve only been working as a foundation year 2 doctor in an emergency department for six weeks and ...

In the midst of huge winter pressures, NHS principles on care in “temporary escalation spaces” threaten to take leave from reality In September 2024 NHS England published Principles for providing safe ...

A former paediatric surgeon has been jailed for five years and seven months for offences committed while operating an unsafe and unsanitary mobile child circumcision service. Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, ...

The cost of colonoscopies and increasingly strict US insurance company policies are driving down rates of colorectal cancer detection in an age group that experts say is at particular risk. Paige ...

Sustained funding is needed for screening and care, but industry must also shoulder costs Alcohol is widely available and drunk by around 80% of adults in the UK. No safe level of alcohol consumption ...