Eleven doctors in training have been removed from the general surgery department at Barnet Hospital, London, because of unacceptable working conditions. NHS England Workforce Training and Education ...

Women and girls living in poor and marginalised communities have been left out of three decades of advances in sexual and reproductive health, according to a new UN report—with 800 women dying while ...

Norway’s health minister, Ingvild Kjerkol, resigned on 12 April after allegations of plagiarism in her masters thesis. She has been under investigation by Nord University in Bodø for irregularities in ...

GPs’ leaders at the BMA have written to NHS England to say they are entering into a dispute with it over changes to their contracts and that industrial action could be on the horizon unless urgent ...

It’s easy and somewhat commonplace to liken healthcare to a widget factory, to boil it down to inputs and outputs; to capacity, productivity, and efficiency. I was reminded of this at last week’s ...

Baby food manufacturer Nestlé has been accused of “unjustifiable” double standards after an investigation found that it added high levels of sugar to cereals for children sold in lower income ...

A psychiatrist who forged a colleague’s signature on his timesheets and claimed tens of thousands of pounds in NHS pay when he was actually on leave or out of the country has been struck off the UK ...

After years of underfunding, being undervalued, and issues around pay and working conditions, something finally seems to have changed for doctors. Whisper it softly, but there seem to be signs that ...

A private healthcare provider that runs nearly 60 NHS GP practices in England is being investigated over potential breaches of contract after the NHS learnt that the firm changed ownership before due ...

The Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health (RCPCH) has called for the removal of the “reasonable punishment” defence that allows parents in England and Northern Ireland to justify physical ...

Chronically underfunded and with hundreds of thousands of roles vacant, social care is in crisis, piling pressure on frontline services and GPs. One solution comes from an old idea: a care workers’ ...

A man in his late 50s with a history of regular cocaine use reported dysphagia, weight loss, and sticking chewing gum to his hard palate to stop food entering his nose (fig 1). On examination he had a ...