Despite initiatives to reverse the trend, UK trained doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds and international medical graduates still have poorer academic outcomes than their white peers. Aisha ...

Launer’s reflection on a role playing exercise brilliantly exposes prevailing clinical practice, where adherence to protocol may restrict our ability to make better contact with patients.1 As trainers ...

A coroner has demanded specialist medical care for women going through the menopause after a teacher aged 54 killed herself by driving into the path of a heavy goods vehicle. The senior coroner for ...

Government plans to speed up access to elective surgery will favour the wealthiest people in UK society unless explicit rationing is introduced to enable the poorest to get faster treatment, a ...

Racism in the NHS continues to be a problem, towards patients and also colleagues.1 Training courses in equality, diversity, and inclusion are mandatory everywhere, but the evidence that they make a ...

Being a doctor is a huge privilege. We’re present and trusted at the major points in life: births, deaths, medical interventions and decisions, and navigating long term conditions. Many of these ...

Photo: Steven Pocock This hanging sculpture, called Look Up My Nose , is designed to produce as little audible sound as possible, while maximising the vibrations felt by anyone standing ...

Low levels of resistance have been detected against one of the newest antibiotics, ceftazidime-avibactam, which has been used in the NHS since 2017, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has warned.

Deaths from avoidable causes remain higher in England and Wales than before the covid-19 pandemic, with rates highest in areas of deprivation, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.1 ...

One Easter in the 1970s Sheila Clark, a paediatrician working in Sheffield, was on a pilgrimage to the Catholic shrine at Lourdes, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, when she joined a large group of ...

Healthcare professionals should not perform female genital mutilation (FGM) as this legitimises the practice and hampers efforts to end it, the World Health Organization has said in new guidance.1 ...

Resident doctors from across the UK convened in London on 26 April for the BMA’s annual conference, where they discussed and debated training and scope creep, as well as the Supreme Court’s ruling on ...