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

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 ...

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 ...

Neville Rowell was born and educated in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was also a medical student and worked in the junior medical ranks at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. He obtained membership of the ...

I support the call for more training posts, as a foundation year 2 resident doctor currently applying for specialty training.1 The rise in competition across specialties includes histopathology ...

Alexander Lister Forrest (Sandy) was the only son of William Forrest, a planning engineer, and Barbara Forrest (née Lister), and had a happy childhood. After school in Leven and Edinburgh, he studied ...

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 ...

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 ...

Workforce sustainability and expansion cannot be achieved without greater capacity to train staff, argue Colin Macdougall and colleagues We are currently in one of the most challenging and vulnerable ...

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 ...