Nottingham University Hospitals NHS trust is investigating allegations that healthcare staff illegally accessed medical records of the victims of a stabbing attack that left three people dead. Barnaby ...

The BMA has announced plans to take legal action over an exam error that left some doctors facing the risk of unemployment. The error affected nearly 300 candidates who sat part 2 of the membership of ...

PAs want robust research evaluating their practice, but adequate funding is needed, write Tamara S Ritsema and Amy Donaldson-Perrott Over the past year, a firestorm of debate has been swirling around ...

US presidential campaign Donald Trump declared that “the most beautiful word in the dictionary today is the word ‘tariff.’” His definition of a tariff is a tax that a government imposes on foreign ...

Stephen Powis, NHS England’s national medical director and one of the government’s most prominent communicators during the covid-19 pandemic, is to step down this summer.1 His departure, announced on ...

Hospital consultants have urged the BMA to lobby for a national, anonymous reporting structure for staff who experience sexual harassment at work. Doctors at the BMA’s UK consultants annual conference ...

For the first time ever the UK has more female than male doctors, with 164 440 women (50.04%) and 164 195 men (49.96%) registered with a licence to practise, show data from the General Medical Council ...

Malcolm Faulk was a pioneering forensic psychiatrist who was instrumental in the development of regional secure units, which were developed to bridge the gap between prisons and the NHS. In 1972 Faulk ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has decided to reconsult on draft guidance for Alzheimer’s treatments donanemab and lecanemab, six months after initially rejecting the ...

In healthcare we trust—or do we? A breakdown in trust, like the schism in the transatlantic alliance, should make us think again about whether the current model requires reinvention. An anonymous ...

More than half of England’s integrated care boards (ICBs) are planning to cut spending on services for young people with eating disorders from April, an analysis by the Royal College of Psychiatrists ...

Much attention has been focused on the Trump administration’s rollback of women’s health and rights. But their alternative model of global health multilateralism will be equally damaging, writes ...