In a survey reported in June, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) asked for its members’ views on physician associates (PAs) in general practice.1 In the light of the responses the ...

If public health prevention and medical interventions are two edges of the health triangle, then host resilience is the often overlooked third edge. While your recent editorial on the rise in deaths ...

The killings by Valdo Calocane have shaken our society. Unfortunately, the reviews by Nottinghamshire Police and the Care Quality Commission fail to tackle the root causes of the rare, but devastating ...

A focus on rights can help improve children’s oral health globally Oral diseases are a leading contributor to the overall burden of non-communicable diseases, reflecting a global crisis in oral health ...

Spectacles, suits, Taylor Swift, and Old Trafford. The register of interests of the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, has now precipitated a reverse turn.1 The newspapers swooped on the shopping list ...

Data published this month by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms a trend, already reported anecdotally by emergency department staff across the country, that deaths from ...

Our friend Mazin Mirza was born on 6 November 1992 and raised in Leicester, son to Ather and Badri Mirza. He was keen to pursue a career as a physician, and first attended the University of Leicester ...

A re-examination of evidence on the effects of health insurance suggests that the lack of consistent health improvements on average masks substantial improvements for certain subgroups The US remains ...

Sotirios came to the UK from Greece in 1974 to train to be a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Instead, after gaining membership of the Royal College of Physicians, he trained to become a GP and joined ...

The UK and Welsh governments have agreed to work together to help deliver better care and reduce waiting times for hospital care and dentistry. Speaking at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on ...

The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) review found that Valdo Calocane’s mental illness was poorly managed and the risk he posed to himself and others was not properly considered before he killed three ...

Further evidence of benefit from a target trial emulation study The modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic (MVA-BN) vaccine, originally developed to protect against smallpox, was introduced in 2022 ...