The maternal death rate in the UK is at its highest for 20 years, with thrombosis and thromboembolism the leading cause of death, according to a major report. The latest MBRRACE-UK report, Saving ...

Ara Darzi’s report on the NHS finds much key infrastructure seriously degraded.1 Crucially, it identifies weakness in leadership, management structures, and capacity among the main drivers of ...

The BMA has offered financial support to a family that is pursuing a legal challenge against the General Medical Council over how it distinguishes between doctors and physician associates. In the ...

Increasing the use of vaccines could help tackle the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by reducing the need for antibiotics by 22% globally—or 2.5 billion defined daily doses—every year ...

Physician associates (PAs) must only see patients in general practice who have been triaged by a GP and only undertake work delegated to them, and agreed with, their named GP supervisor, says new ...

The UK based drug firm GSK has agreed to pay up to $2.2bn (£1.7bn; €2bn) to settle claims that the heartburn drug ranitidine (previously marketed in the US as Zantac) caused cancer. The deal, ...

Large language models have the potential to enhance equitable access to health information, but their poor performance in some languages could exacerbate the digital divide in healthcare, say Arthur ...

Sarah Benn, a former GP, was suspended by the MPTS after an arrest for her involvement in climate protests, raising the question of when and whether doctors in such cases should be sanctioned First, ...

A doctor who became close friends with Lucy Letby when they worked together was “misled and maybe manipulated” by the nurse, he told the public inquiry into her crimes. Named only as Dr U, he was the ...

Regulation and monitoring are needed to prevent harmful bias in AI tools Artificial intelligence (AI) could help achieve global health equity by extending efficient and cost effective healthcare to ...

The complete lack of specialist care in England for patients with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME or chronic fatigue syndrome) could cause deaths in future unless urgent action is taken, a ...

This week the inquiry heard further testimony from doctors and patients about their experiences during the pandemic. Matthew Limb and Jacqui Wise report Learning that the first 10 doctors in the UK to ...