Delivering high quality, patient centred care requires medical training that is long enough, broad enough, and deep enough, writes Andrew Elder A senior medical leader recently gave me a piece of ...
A court judged nurse Lucy Letby guilty of seven murders and seven attempted murders in August 2023. But in the year since then questions have been raised about the evidence used to convict her. With a ...
The great Indian heat wave broke all records. It scorched a vast swath of the country, from Gujarat and Rajasthan in the west, eastward across Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to West Bengal. In rural areas ...
When I started writing Perilous Times —a novel in which Arthurian knights return from the dead to save Britain from peril in an exaggerated post-Brexit dystopia—I was suffering from an acute case of ...
A senior consultant paediatrician has told the Thirlwall inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of newborns at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015-16 that he feels “ashamed” for ...
Grant Kelly was an IT visionary who helped instigate many of the developments in general practice informatics that are now taken for granted. Kelly was a member of the influential BMA General ...
A group of organisations advocating for Canadians with disabilities has launched a court challenge against a key provision of Canada’s law on medical assistance in dying (MAID) that currently allows ...
The number of adults in England who use e-cigarettes despite never regularly smoking tobacco has risen sharply to around a million people, a study has found.1 Researchers at University College London ...
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has urged the UK government to launch a rapid, independent review of the role of physician associates and anaesthesia associates because of “mounting concern” ...
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, the umbrella organisation for the colleges, has intervened in the debate about the role and status of physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs). It has now ...
When doctors are taught to be perfect, even providing reasonable care feels like failure, writes Zaid Al-Najjar I was recently talking with a colleague about a clinical pathway in our practice that ...
Medical leaders in India have expressed alarm over a drug alert issued by the country’s drug regulator that lists 50 products as “not of standard quality.” The list, issued by the Central Drugs ...
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