Higher taxes on gambling and milkshakes,1 private funding for new neighbourhood hubs, and scrapping the two child benefit cap2 have been announced in the government’s 2025 budget. But there were no ...
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Government ‘withholding data that may link covid jab to excess deaths’,” read the headline in the Telegraph . “Health chiefs accused of a ‘cover up’ after failing to reveal data that may link covid ...
As a final year medical student who is transitioning to a career in medicine after a 25 year career in professional services, I’m pleased that NHS England has mandated a 10 point plan to improve the ...
Hundreds of thousands of children are set to be lifted out of poverty, as the UK government has announced that it will end the limit restricting universal credit support to two children per family.
Adding fluoride to drinking water has no negative effect on cognitive ability and may even confer a small cognitive benefit, research has found.1 The finding comes as the public health practice of ...
The case for a greater focus on medical “expert generalists” in the NHS has been in the health policy news recently. The NHS England diagnostic review of postgraduate medical training, which I ...
Dairy drinks will be hit by the soft drinks levy and private funding will be used to help with the development of hundreds of new GP led health centres. These policies have been announced ahead of the ...
Generative AI is expanding access, understanding, and choice for patients but also creating new risks and ethical questions, argue Charlotte Blease and colleagues What once sounded like science ...
Rates of whooping cough (pertussis) are rising in the US as fewer children are being vaccinated. Official data showed 35 493 cases of the disease in the US in 2024, a fivefold increase from 7063 in ...
The Autism Act 2009 is a landmark law that requires the government to produce an autism strategy for England, backed up by statutory guidance for the NHS and local authorities. Now, a House of Lords ...
Silos have formed in a range of debates in medicine. We need to work together to move beyond this polarisation, writes Elspeth Davies ### Biography Elspeth Davies is a senior researcher at the ...