Jeraj’s summary of the government’s options for regulation of NHS managers is helpful.1 But given the recent history of management failures by both general and medical managers, a consensus is ...

Innovation may fall short of delivering improvement The UK government’s 10 year health plan for England1 was published against concerns of ailing productivity within the NHS2 and the wider UK economy.

Efforts to prevent and ultimately end FGM need more funding and the support of health professionals, writes Nimco Ali Many health professionals know about the dire medical and psychological ...

Consultant psychiatrist Suhana Ahmed talks to Erin Dean about her experience with postnatal depression and how she encourages other doctors to seek support When consultant psychiatrist Suhana Ahmed ...

What you need to know The World Health Organization (WHO) defines infertility as the lack of a pregnancy after at least 12 months of regular unprotected intercourse.1 This includes primary female ...

Both the Annals study and the BMJ report point toward accessibility, perceived as much as objective, as an important dimension for prevention strategies. We believe continued integration of this ...

The UK’s medicines regulator has approved the first immunotherapy to be licensed to delay the progression of type 1 diabetes in patients who are in the early stages of the disease. The Medicines and ...

Doctors will be able to prescribe a new treatment for people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), after the UK medicines watchdog approved guselkumab (Tremfya) for use on the NHS. The National ...

Incentives will only have a real impact if they are adaptable to the needs of patients and healthcare teams, write Margarida Gil Conde and Ivone Gonçalves Gaspar Recent publication of the NHS’s 10 ...

Doctors working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Sudan have treated more than 2300 cholera patients in the past week and have seen 40 people die from the infection. Sudan, which has been ...

Ken was born in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, as a second son. His elder brother Roger had died at birth two years earlier, but his existence was acknowledged right throughout Ken’s life and influenced ...

The recent drop in the NHS waiting list hailed by ministers as a sign of progress in tackling the treatment backlog has given a “misleading” impression of the service’s ability to meet demand, a ...