Four months after GPs in England voted in favour of taking collective action over contractual terms and funding,1 local ...

Medical defence experts have welcomed the government’s decision to increase the personal injury discount rate (PIDR) in ...

The NHS in Scotland must consider reducing the range and level of services it offers to free up money for high priority care, ...

One effect of last week’s parliamentary debate and vote to change the law on assisted dying is that more people are talking about death, which isn’t a common or comfortable topic of conversation here ...

Gareth was born in 1956 in Aberystwyth and spent most of his childhood in Dolgellau before moving to Llandyrnog in Denbighshire, speaking mostly Welsh until the age of 8. After graduating from Cardiff ...

The former chief executive of the Countess of Cheshire Hospital has described as “outrageous” a suggestion that he sought to ...

It is two years since I, along with my co-author Martin Forde KC, published our review into the General Medical Council’s (GMC) handling of the case of a GP who was suspended over a claim she had been ...

Tuberculosis is a preventable and curable disease that continues to devastate the most vulnerable, including migrant and ...

The BMJ will offer £50 for reviews by patients and the public From January 2025 patients and members of the public who ...

What you need to know Prostate cancer is usually diagnosed using image guided needle biopsy. Approximately 70 000 such biopsies are performed annually in the UK,1 but these numbers have fallen since ...

A BMJ Commission will redefine the role of academia in healthcare Academic medicine remains under scrutiny. Despite various ...

President elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Jay Bhattacharya, who opposed lockdowns during the covid-19 pandemic, to head the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Like other Trump nominations ...