My father Robert—Bob to those who knew him—was born in Romford, Essex, in 1948. He took his O and A levels at Brentwood School; he was placed in the medical stream but enjoyed playing football for the ...

A “senseless” triple drone strike on children and health workers in southern Sudan has killed 114 people and injured 35, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported. The attack, launched on 5 ...

Women are receiving poor standards of basic care in maternity services across England, while staff are receiving death threats, a rapid review into the system has found.1 The national investigation ...

The number of children dying before the age of 5 is expected to rise this year for the first time in a quarter of a century as cuts to international health funding bite, a report by the Gates ...

The NHS’s plan for recovering dental services will require a coordinated, comprehensive data ecosystem, write Kristina Wanyonyi-Kay , Ben Goldacre , and Mary Dixon-Woods An overlooked feature of the ...

A nurse suspended from work after objecting to a transgender doctor using a female changing room was harassed by the NHS Fife health board but was not discriminated against or victimised, an ...

Domestic abuse in NHS workers is a “silent pandemic,” with some research finding that they are three times as likely to experience it. Adele Waters finds that the NHS needs to do more to end a “double ...

A new safety signal system for maternity services that aims to spot potential emergency safety issues more quickly has been launched by NHS England. The Maternity Outcomes Signal System (MOSS)1 ...

Rollout of the gonorrhoea vaccination programme in the UK is potentially game changing, but in its current form it risks perpetuating health inequalities, argue Jack Haywood and colleagues In August ...

Pauline was born in Worcester in 1929 and was educated during the second world war, her schooling frequently interrupted by trips to air raid shelters. Her parents wanted her to become a secretary but ...

As with much of the public health community, I was angered and saddened to see Donald Trump make such reckless and potentially damaging comments on the global stage about paracetamol use during ...

One in seven patients end up in a “referral black hole” as their GP referral for tests or treatment is either delayed, lost, rejected, or not sent, a report from Healthwatch England warns.1 While this ...