More than half (54%, 458) of black women surveyed had problems with healthcare professionals during their pregnancy, while 28% (237) reported being discriminated against.1 The Black Maternal ...

NHS England’s plans for the upcoming strikes by resident doctors will put patient safety at risk, the BMA has warned. In previous strike action, including the prolonged dispute between resident ...

A GP has been suspended from the UK medical register for nine months after prescribing controlled drugs to friends or family and receiving some of those drugs for his own use. Andrew Foster, who ...

A child at Liverpool’s Alder Hey hospital has died of measles.1 The tragic death comes less than a week after medical officials at the children’s hospital warned that cases of the virus were on the ...

The US Congress has clawed back about $8bn (£5.9bn; €6.8bn) in funding to continue to support PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The agency was originally due to lose funding in ...

There’s clear evidence that many doctors aren’t valued in the NHS, and their potential as leaders is inadvertently curtailed. The resident doctors’ strike, the postgraduate medical training review, ...

On behalf of the Working in Partnership with Patients and Communities Forum of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine, we welcome Vanneste and colleagues’ important study on reporting patient and ...

The US health department has made personal data on 79 million people, including addresses, race, and ethnicity, available to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency that is rounding up ...

The death of a child in Liverpool after contracting measles is a “tragedy” that shows society is failing to protect children, the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) ...

The government has set out plans to formally regulate senior NHS managers, including banning those who commit serious misconduct from taking up other senior roles in the health service. The Department ...

The Care Quality Commission has identified fraudulent activity involving doctors’ identities, soaring numbers of prescriptions for cannabis based products, and prevention of future death reports ...

Wraparound care for patients taking GLP-1 agonists must include assessment of nutritional status to identify the risk of malnutrition, writes Ellen Fallows Food insecurity is increasing, particularly ...