The death of a child in Liverpool after contracting measles is a “tragedy” that shows society is failing to protect children, the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) ...

The government has set out plans to formally regulate senior NHS managers, including banning those who commit serious misconduct from taking up other senior roles in the health service. The Department ...

The Care Quality Commission has identified fraudulent activity involving doctors’ identities, soaring numbers of prescriptions for cannabis based products, and prevention of future death reports ...

Wraparound care for patients taking GLP-1 agonists must include assessment of nutritional status to identify the risk of malnutrition, writes Ellen Fallows Food insecurity is increasing, particularly ...

After some delay, Gillian Leng’s report on physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) in the NHS was published on 16 July.1 Her remit was to look at the safety and effectiveness of ...

Those born between the mid-to-late 1990s and early 2010s seem to be drinking less alcohol than older generations. Why is this—and could it be a public health opportunity? Elisabeth Mahase reports The ...

A doctor and her husband who made nearly £8000 selling personal protective equipment (PPE) stolen from NHS Scotland in the early stages of the covid pandemic have both been jailed for 10 months. At ...

Knowing who to approach and taking initiative can set new foundation year 1 (FY1) doctors up for success, Elisabeth Mahase hears Natasha Binnie, foundation year 2 doctor, says, “Firstly, ...

The US government says that its plan to cap the fees that researchers pay to publish open access articles in medical journals will be in operation from October—although key details, including the ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reversed its ban on Juul Laboratories’ e-cigarette products and will allow them to be sold to help adult smokers stop smoking or switch to less dangerous ...

One fundamental question that Gillian Leng’s review had to answer was whether the roles of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) could continue in the NHS without any changes.1 ...

Premature babies in the UK are to be offered protection against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) with a single injection of the long acting monoclonal antibody nirsevimab. Every year in the UK around ...