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 family of a doctor who took his own life within hours of receiving an email from the General Medical Council (GMC) has failed in their bid to sue the GMC for damages over his death.1 Sridharan ...

The chairs of the BMJ Commission on the Future of Academic Medicine set out principles for transforming academic medicine and to help improve population and planetary health Academic medicine is in ...

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 ...

Councils trying to bring in policies to protect the public from unhealthy food adverts face a “tobacco playbook” of tactics to stymie their plans, such as financial warnings and claims advertisers ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest mass firings in critical US health services are short sighted, cruel, and ignorant, writes Esther Choo This week is National Public Health Week in the United States and perhaps the saddest ...

The UK government has announced plans for a new Health Data Research Service, which will give researchers a secure single access point to national scale datasets as well as NHS trust level data. The ...

The UK government should train and employ more health visitors and school nurses as part of a package of measures to tackle the rise in mental health problems among children and young people, a ...