The NHS and social care have been able to fill many vacancies in recent years by relying on immigration—with more than two thirds of doctors, and almost half of nurses, joining their registers having ...

Justin was born in Cardiff in 1923 and educated at Cardiff High School. He was inspired from an early age to pursue a medical career and won a scholarship to study medicine at Westminster Hospital ...

Geoffrey Robb was a distinguished physician, educator, mentor, and philanthropist. He was educated at Epsom College and Bristol University, and qualified as a doctor in 1961. He later trained in ...

Intuition is the name we give to unconscious processes that can produce the right answer, even when we don’t know why. A gut feeling that something is wrong may be the detection of subtle yet ...

Glasgow GP Muhammad Kausar wrote poetry as a way of coming to terms with his life as a migrant. On the one hand, he considered himself fortunate to have been able to build a life and a career far from ...

A world first gonorrhoea vaccine is being rolled out from today in England with the aim of reducing soaring cases and saving millions of pounds for the NHS. The programme will see local authority ...

The French government has been urged to stop US plans to destroy $9.7m (£7.4m; €8.4m) worth of contraceptives bought for foreign aid programmes funded by Biden-era contracts. The Trump administration ...

Doctors at all career stages struggle with imposter syndrome. Elisabeth Mahase hears how they tackle it Precious Oluwaniyi, 4th year medical student, says, “Unfortunately, imposter syndrome is ...

Falling vaccination rates and rising cases have raised concerns about the re-emergence of one of the world’s most contagious diseases. Kate Bowie examines whether current guidance needs revisiting The ...

Caution is needed until the harms are better understood Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists have emerged as a promising treatment for obesity and diabetes. Over the past few years, ...

No one would have expected to witness the scale and intensity of starvation that we are seeing in Gaza. In the 1970s, pioneer emergency nutritionists described the difference between an acute food ...

The UK’s flagship health research programme promises breakthroughs, but beneath an NHS branded facade, critics are asking who really benefits from this vast database, heavily backed by industry and ...