General practices and hospitals have been urged to act after a fatal mix-up in which a patient’s penicillin allergy was incorrectly recorded as a penicillamine allergy in their GP record. The death of ...

Rolewicz and colleagues explain how the UK’s crackdown on immigration threatens the NHS workforce.1 I am worried about the kind of Britain that Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, is planning to build ...

A monthly injection of a monoclonal antibody helped 90% of patients with severe asthma to reduce their daily oral steroid tablets, researchers have found. Half of patients in the single arm, open ...

The introduction of the contraceptive pill in 1961 heralded a sexual revolution for women in the UK. For Jill Tattersall, who had trained in obstetrics and gynaecology, it proved a career defining ...

Gender affirming care (GAC) for under 18s in the US falls short of the standards expected for medical treatment, a new government report claims. The report, by the US Department of Health and Human ...

A trial of lenacapavir showed 100% protection against HIV infection. But cuts to foreign aid and criticism over its pricing put the brakes on a worldwide rollout. Elna Schütz asks if we’re now seeing ...

A British Palestinian doctor who made allegedly antisemitic posts on social media has been suspended from the UK medical register for 15 months while her fitness to practise is investigated. Rahmeh ...

Government ‘withholding data that may link covid jab to excess deaths’,” read the headline in the Telegraph . “Health chiefs accused of a ‘cover up’ after failing to reveal data that may link covid ...

Hundreds of thousands of children are set to be lifted out of poverty, as the UK government has announced that it will end the limit restricting universal credit support to two children per family.

Higher taxes on gambling and milkshakes,1 private funding for new neighbourhood hubs, and scrapping the two child benefit cap2 have been announced in the government’s 2025 budget. But there were no ...

As a final year medical student who is transitioning to a career in medicine after a 25 year career in professional services, I’m pleased that NHS England has mandated a 10 point plan to improve the ...

The case for a greater focus on medical “expert generalists” in the NHS has been in the health policy news recently. The NHS England diagnostic review of postgraduate medical training, which I ...