The secretary of state for health and social care, Wes Streeting, has ordered a rapid national investigation into NHS maternity services in England to tackle “systemic problems dating back over 15 ...

The security of a career in medicine has declined over generations while the financial burden has grown, writes Luke Craddock Being a doctor in the UK is no longer a stable and well remunerated career ...

It can be hard to keep up with NHS reorganisations. Integrated care boards (ICBs) were created in July 2022, taking over the responsibility for commissioning healthcare from clinical commissioning ...

Long standing litigation against Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, over the addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin (oxycodone) seems to be resolved with a $7.4bn (£5.84bn; €6.38bn) ...

The rise of new and emerging nicotine products, including e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches, and heated tobacco products, threatens to undermine hard won public health gains made over the past 20 years, ...

More than 400 Gazans have reportedly been killed by Israeli forces while trying to access food and other humanitarian aid in repeated attacks that have taken place since the US and Israeli backed Gaza ...

The BMA’s chair of council, Philip Banfield, has called for a new independent regulator of doctors, calling the General Medical Council “clueless” about how medicine is delivered and “contemptuous of ...

Byelaws governing hiring, firing, and treatment in the largest integrated US healthcare system, the Veterans Administration (VA), no longer contain text explicitly barring discrimination against staff ...

Many doctors who trained outside the UK are choosing to migrate to other countries over the UK for higher salaries, lower living costs, and a better quality of life, research has found. More than 3000 ...

NHS staff must immediately stop using any artificial intelligence ambient scribe tools that have not been officially registered for medical use in the UK, NHS England has said. The use of ambient ...

North Korea’s claims to have been a rare success story in containing the coronavirus were fabricated, with the communist regime’s cover-up exacerbating a deadly public health crisis that left the ...

Hamish was brought up in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, and was educated at St Bees boarding school in Cumbria. He studied ...