Jacqui Wise asked a GP partner, a hospital consultant, and a doctor who left clinical medicine what the past decade had brought them In 2010 Emma Plunkett was a junior registrar, on maternity leave for her second child. Now she is a consultant anaesthetist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. “My training seemed to take for ever,” she recalls. “I had three lots of maternity leave and saw…
NHS England is making its last call for evidence for a review on postgraduate medical education.1 There have been dozens of similar reviews in my…
Very senior NHS managers, including medical directors, will be able to earn 10% bonuses or face having their pay cut by 15%, depending on how…
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill,1 which aims to legalise medically assisted dying in England and Wales, has brought greater public and political…
Multiple health organisations have joined forces to call on the government to make physical punishment of children illegal in England. Thirteen organisations led by the…
Investment in vaccination, vector control, and surveillance is vital In 2024, Latin America recorded its biggest ever dengue outbreak, with 13 million reported cases and…
Multiple complexities in decision making require a careful approach Eating and drinking are core aspects of human experience and more than just the intake of…
### What you need to know Dementia is a chronic, progressive, and irreversible disease affecting cognition, behaviour, and function. Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, and mixed…
A report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Doctors of the World UK (DOTW) has called for the closure of Wethersfield, a site that houses…
In early April 2020, staff at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust gathered to prepare for the wave of covid-19 patients they knew were coming their…
The United Nations aid chief has rebuked Israel’s proposed new plan for militarily controlled aid distribution for Gaza, describing it as a “fig leaf for…
