The World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund have called for a quadrupling of the current rates of progress in order to reach sustainable development goal 6 (SDG 6)—universal ...

I’ve had a very inspiring week. Firstly, I taught a group of second year medical students who are doing a special study module on the future of general practice. Many of them already intend to become ...

How did consultants, other non-striking doctors, and staff maintain services last week—and did the experience offer any lessons for the future? Emma Wilkinson reports While thousands of junior doctors ...

General practitioners in the UK are experiencing the highest stress and lowest job satisfaction when compared with colleagues in nine other high income countries, an analysis has found. The report by ...

Rudolf Schoenhuber (“Rudi”) died suddenly, prompting immense feelings of loneliness in all the people who had known him: colleagues, friends, students, patients, and family members. He was eclectic, ...

The introduction of minimum unit pricing in Scotland is associated with significant reductions in deaths from alcohol consumption, research has found. Over a period of two years and eight months after ...

The target of limiting global temperature rises to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is likely to be breached within the next decade, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned.1 ...

The scientific literature shows that fear is generally an ineffective way of persuading people to engage in health protective behaviours Among the many revelations from recent leaked UK Government ...

An image of a lone 18 year old Afghan woman in Kabul rising up to protest against the Taliban’s ban on Afghan women attending university, revealed a bravery and strength.1 On 20 December 2022, the ...

The government’s food “tsar,” Henry Dimbleby, has resigned from his role to speak openly about the Conservative Party’s failure to reform the food system, a move that he said was essential in stemming ...

It was a very badly timed email. That week I’d received a pension tax bill, been shouted at by a stranger for my views on covid, done resident consultant night shifts paid at plain rates, missed my ...

The GMC will ask junior doctors about discrimination and unprofessional behaviour in medical education and training in this year’s national training survey. The regulator, which oversees medical ...