The union representing UK physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs and AAs) has said that hostility faced by some PAs from ...

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 ...

What is lifestyle medicine? It’s a massive hit on social media, where it seems to have captured the zeitgeist of a generation ...

More than 100 international doctors and health workers who have volunteered in Gaza have signed an open letter urging the global community to take action to protect civilians and healthcare workers ...

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 ...

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 ...

This month, 7000 new resident doctors have started their foundation training in the NHS. It is not uncommon for a resident doctor to wait 20 minutes for a ward computer to boot up, only to spend the ...

Credit: South East Coast Ambulance Service Douglas Chamberlain, the “grandfather of paramedicine,” founded the first ...

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 ...

In November last year, Buse and McKee reflected on the potential consequences of the Trump presidency on global health.1 US ...

Last month’s 10 year plan for the NHS in England proposed initiatives aimed at patients as consumers of services, using information in directories or league tables to exercise choice about their care.

NHS England has launched an online service to increase the number of pregnant women in England who directly book a first ...