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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Electronic patient record (EPR) systems can contribute to “serious harm” when patient information is missed, delayed, or recorded incorrectly, a national safety watchdog has warned. The Health ...
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 ...
Far right parties are gaining ground across the world. The more that governments seem unable or unwilling to improve the material conditions of people’s lives, especially those who are most deprived, ...
A global resurgence of measles is a “fire alarm” for further waves of other infectious diseases such as diphtheria and polio, a senior health official has said. The remarks came at the launch of the ...
Rolewicz and colleagues explain how the UK’s crackdown on immigration threatens the NHS workforce.1 I am worried about the kind of Britain that Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, is planning to build ...
General practices and hospitals have been urged to act after a fatal mix-up in which a patient’s penicillin allergy was incorrectly recorded as a penicillamine allergy in their GP record. The death of ...
A monthly injection of a monoclonal antibody helped 90% of patients with severe asthma to reduce their daily oral steroid tablets, researchers have found. Half of patients in the single arm, open ...
The introduction of the contraceptive pill in 1961 heralded a sexual revolution for women in the UK. For Jill Tattersall, who had trained in obstetrics and gynaecology, it proved a career defining ...
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