Kathy Oxtoby describes how Dr Ash Patel boosted morale, brought joy, and made connections through baking (1). We would like to share achieving something similar, increasingly necessary in medicine and ...

A UK clinical trial aiming to assess the effect of puberty blockers on young people with gender incongruence continues to be mired in controversy. Just a week after the trial was paused by the ...

MPs have written to health secretary Wes Streeting asking him to stop a “forced merger” between two patient safety bodies. The all party parliamentary group (APPG) on patient safety says that the ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published its first ever quality standard for rare diseases as part of an effort to speed up diagnosis and reduce variation in care ...

A proposal to make newly qualified doctors, dentists, and nurses work in the NHS in Scotland for at least five years or face financial penalties has been condemned as “deeply flawed.” The “train here, ...

A formula milk company involved in a recent contamination outbreak has hiked its prices despite concerns that they were already too high. Danone has increased the cost of some of its most popular ...

Shelmerdine and Nour describe how AI chatbots might widen access to support while also risking psychological and social harms, including deepening isolation.1 The key question for health systems is ...

Only 6% of surgeons working in the private sector are women, new research has found.1 Researchers noted the striking difference in the gender balance of the workforce compared with the NHS where 16.9% ...

The past decade has seen a steady movement towards expanding the roles of different healthcare professionals, including physician assistants, nurses, and pharmacists, driven by the belief that there ...

I recently heard a wonderful story from a GP colleague. As usual, I’ve altered details for anonymity. A new patient registered with him and explained that she didn’t want screening tests such as ...

Hannah Gillespie and colleagues suggest how to tackle the challenges facing the clinical academic workforce to create a healthier future Vision 2050 of the BMJ Commission on the Future of Academic ...

Lifting the two child benefit cap is an important step but will still leave 4.15 million children in poverty, Marmot tells Elisabeth Mahase Michael Marmot, the UK’s leading expert on health equity, ...