On 9 September NHS England published its first quarterly league tables of NHS provider trusts’ performance,1 as promised in the NHS 10 year plan.2 There are scores, tables, and rankings covering ...

Tens of thousands of NHS patients will develop delirium—and an alarming proportion die after the illness. Yet few people talk about it. Chris Stokel-Walker explores why My grandad had always said he ...

US health agencies are preparing to furlough up to three quarters of their staff and health insurance premiums could rise for millions of Americans as lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on the ...

Paul Lorigan and colleagues argue that despite regulation commercial sunbeds remain popular with young people and are adding to the national skin cancer burden Indoor tanning is experiencing a boom in ...

US withdrawals of funding and pharmaceutical tariffs have left European drug development on a cliff edge, delegates at the European Health Forum in Gastein, Austria, have warned. The concerns come ...

New evidence that progesterone is being prescribed to women in the UK to “reverse” medical abortion is concerning doctors and charities. Jacqui Wise reports An investigation by the Times , published ...

Reforms to exception reporting may undermine professional values and autonomy, writes Alexander Mafi The recent reforms to exception reporting agreed between the BMA and the government are a win for ...

One key recommendation of the Leng review is that physician assistants (formerly physician associates) and physician assistants in anaesthesia (formerly anaesthesia associates) should not see ...

NHS England has removed an article examining the subject of first cousin marriage after a public backlash. A blog published on 22 September by NHS England’s Genomics Education Programme said that ...

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REFERENCE 1. Department of Health and Social Care, Streeting W. NHS leaders face both “carrot and stick” in new performance drive.15 May 2025.

Graham MacGregor had three weapons in his campaign armoury: persistence, bloody mindedness, and charm, as he explained on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific in 2017. This three pronged ...