In a recent BMJ podcast interview Clare Owen , director of the Medical Schools Council, discusses racism in medical education with Victor Adebowale , chair of the NHS Confederation ### Biographies ...

Revenue could reduce funding gaps and inequalities The UK’s health and social care services are increasingly strained by rising demands and widening health inequalities—in life expectancy, infant ...

Going through fertility treatment can be physically and mentally exhausting, especially when working at the same time, but there are ways you can ease the strain, Abi Rimmer hears Divpreet Sacha, ...

The announcement that NHS England (NHSE) will be scrapped may have surprised the mainstream media, but for many insiders there were indications of the direction of travel. The absence of any serious ...

Although the words “prevention is better than the cure” are often said, this still largely remains a mantra. The UK government has committed to a shift from “sickness to prevention” in the NHS.1 ...

The year is 1828. Anaesthesia is yet to be invented and tethered to an operating table in the centre of a crowded, putrid theatre at Guy’s Hospital, a patient screams at his surgeon to stop the ...

A month before Mahmoud Abu Nujaila, a doctor who worked with Médecins Sans Frontières at Gaza's Al-Awda hospital, was killed by an Israeli airstrike along with his colleagues, he wrote on a hospital ...

I’ve worked in primary care, emergency care, and paediatrics. Every day I see people in mental distress—from depression to psychosis to post traumatic stress disorder. Recently, the UK Labour ...

In searching for long words, arbitrarily defined as words that are at least 10 letters and four syllables long, I have found some exceptionally long medical examples, such as: the names of proteins ...