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Abolish NHS England and overhaul management to improve NHS productivity, says think tank
Ara Darzi’s landmark diagnosis of the NHS blamed misjudged fiddling with NHS structures, headquarters, and regulatory functions for helping to plunge the health service into its current parlous state.
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Are India’s regulatory gaps leaving patients with substandard mental health counsellors?
A severe shortage of qualified clinical and counselling psychologists is undermining mental health in India. Charu Bahri reports When Amit Malik* from Bengaluru in south India consulted a ...
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Alistair Adams: ophthalmologist whose inventiveness and dexterity led to a new type of cataract surgery
Alistair Adams, an ophthalmic surgeon, was renowned among friends and colleagues for his imagination and inventiveness. A skilled eye surgeon, he claimed to be the first in Scotland to perform laser ...
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England and Wales see sharp rise in health related benefit claims
The number of working age people in England and Wales receiving health related benefits has risen sharply over the past four years, an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has shown.1 ...
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WHO acts to boost access to mpox vaccine
CDC Jean Kakuru Biyambo, a father of six from the Muja camp for internally displaced persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, gestures outside Goma general hospital, where he is receiving ...
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Nipah virus: Kerala reports second death in four months
A 24 year old student who was visiting his hometown of Malappuram, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, has become the ...
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Peter Cole: anaesthetist and researcher who highlighted the dangers of passive smoking years before it was considered a public health threat
For Peter Cole, an anaesthetist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, the life of a conventional hospital consultant would ...
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Any NHS reform has to avoid a repeat of 2012
The BMA and the UK government have finally agreed about something—two things, in fact: a new pay deal and the need for major reform of the NHS. After 44 days of strike action over the past two years, ...
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Genitourinary syndrome of menopause … and other research
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research Many women experience genitourinary symptoms during and after the menopause, but ...
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Lecanemab’s benefits are too small and uncertain
Raised expectations of treatment effect do not justify the cost The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency ...
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Two thirds of maternity units fail to meet safety standards as poor care is “normalised,” says regulator
Poor care in maternity services is being “normalised,” the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has warned as it urges the NHS and the government to act to prevent further harm to women and babies.1 In a ...
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Former GP is struck off for spreading conspiracy theories about covid pandemic
A former GP who spread conspiracy theories about the covid-19 pandemic in online interviews has been struck off the UK medical register after a tribunal found that he had abused his position as a ...