The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) is calling for urgent reforms to tackle sexual harassment in the NHS after a High Court judge ruled that a surgeon who harassed junior colleagues ...

Vaccination for shingles could be linked to a reduction in the risk of developing dementia, a study published in Nature has reported.1 Researchers at Stanford University in California analysed cases ...

The UK government has announced plans for a new Health Data Research Service, which will give researchers a secure single access point to national scale datasets as well as NHS trust level data. The ...

The BMJ’s editor met with Ashish Jha, dean of public health and former covid response coordinator to President Biden, to discuss the state of science and public health in the US ### Biography Ashish ...

More than 1500 additional GPs have been recruited to England’s workforce in the past six months under the additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS), it has been announced, equating to 851 full time ...

Roger was born in Sheffield and graduated from the University of Sheffield medical school in 1974. His next 16 years were spent training in general surgery and urology across Chesterfield, Liverpool, ...

Piers Recordon was born in 1936. In 1961 he qualified from St John’s College, Cambridge, which he loved, and Barts, on which he was less keen. He met his wife, Gill, while doing house jobs; they ...

Susan Stuart (née Walker) was a GP of the old school, with a firm belief in seeing patients from the cradle to the grave. She made a point of personally providing end of life care, believing this was ...

The National Academy for Social Prescribing has recently announced that over 1800 general practices have joined “the parkrun practice initiative,” saying that this has “proven highly effective in ...

NHS England issued a press release announcing a “nationwide rollout” of an “artificial intelligence tool that predicts falls and viruses.”1 It said that the tool, developed by the care provider Cera, ...

The latest mass firings in critical US health services are short sighted, cruel, and ignorant, writes Esther Choo This week is National Public Health Week in the United States and perhaps the saddest ...

Patients in hospital emergency departments are being put at risk because they are not getting time critical medication (TCM) for chronic conditions such as diabetes and Parkinson’s disease on time, ...