Nearly 18 months after NHS England announced its intention to allow scientists to analyse general practice data for research, the scheme finally looks set to go ahead. Elisabeth Mahase examines how it ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has approved fenfluramine (Fintepla) for the treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) in people aged 2 years and ...

Doctors’ leaders have condemned a “catastrophic” error in the marking of a high stakes medical exam that left almost 300 candidates with an incorrect result. The error affected nearly a fifth (283 of ...

People living in the most deprived areas of the UK are much more likely to die from cancer, with death rates almost 60% higher than in the most affluent areas, a new analysis has found. The work by ...

A collaborative dialogue between clinician and patient can make a huge difference to patient experience, writes Stephanie O’Donohue It is vital that patients feel safe and supported when accessing ...

A senior GP partner who made false allegations to the General Medical Council about a colleague has been struck off the UK medical register after the GMC accused him of serious dishonesty and ...

Discrimination experienced by doctors from ethnic minorities has been exposed in a survey carried out by the BMA in Scotland.1 It found that almost two thirds of respondents have experienced or ...

Doctors are finding it increasingly difficult to provide healthcare in Sudan, including for sick and malnourished children, as violence escalates and supplies of food and surgical equipment dwindle, ...

Nicaragua’s health ministry has confirmed that 30 people have been infected by the New World screwworm ( Cochliomyia ...

The prevention of multiple long term conditions needs to be higher up the healthcare agenda and for this to happen we need to be more precise about what we mean when talking about it. As populations ...

Governments are being urged to take action to improve healthcare for the growing number of people with chronic diseases after a survey of more than 100 000 patients found that many are missing out on ...

Black women in the UK are still more likely to die in childbirth than their white counterparts. Samara Linton explores why—and what’s being done to improve outcomes The UK has one of the lowest ...