Oliver is right to caution that NHS league tables risk doing more harm than good.1 They may create an illusion of accountability, while also generating pressure that can demoralise staff, a familiar ...

Patients underwent unnecessary mastectomies or had cancer diagnoses delayed because of long running systemic failures at an NHS hospital trust, an independent review has found.1 A “culture of ...

Matt Morgan shares some words that capture what medicine feels like when no ICD code will do Words matter. In medicine, they act as scalpel and suture. They are the only operating instruments we carry ...

What you need to know In England, 1 in 4 adults,1 and almost 1 in 4 children by the time they are 11 years old,2 are living with obesity (based on body mass index (BMI) measurements and classification ...

Yes, you heard it right. This is a growing skincare trend—made popular by celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston1—whereby people have DNA fragments taken from salmon sperm injected into their face, in ...

The removal of a warning label on menopausal hormone therapies has been hailed as a win for a US advocacy campaign. But the origins of that campaign suggest industry is laying the groundwork for a ...

Doctors have a duty to act but there are many ways they can do so, Elisabeth Mahase hears Kathryn Leask, medicolegal adviser at the Medical Defence Union, says, “Hearing discriminatory comments would ...

Hospitalist programmes, initially introduced in the USA in the 1990s, have spread to other countries, including Canada, Australia, Germany, Israel, New Zealand, South Korea, and Switzerland, among ...

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has attacked the leadership of the BMA’s GP Committee in England in the ongoing row over online access to family doctors. Streeting has gone over the heads of the ...

Laboratory testing errors that could lead to patient harm are in danger of being missed after the withdrawal of a voluntary oversight scheme, experts have warned, saying that a radical overhaul of the ...

The UK’s response to the covid pandemic was stuck in a spiral of death. Boris Johnson’s government was too slow to respond, and when it did so the response was inadequate. Many thousands of lives were ...

The UK National Screening Committee has advised against routine screening for prostate cancer with the prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test, saying that the harms would outweigh the benefits.