The prime minister, Keir Starmer, has unveiled new plans to radically transform the NHS in a bid to cut waiting lists.1 One new element is the promise that GPs will be able to order more tests ...

Authors, institutions, funders, and editors must be alert to the dangers A growing number of entities misrepresent themselves as scholarly journals for financial gain despite not meeting scholarly ...

Improving the NHS has to be weighed alongside improving population health Two narratives emerged from Wes Streeting’s first appearance before the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee on ...

GPs are to be paid a £20 fee for each call they make to a hospital specialist seeking to speed up treatment as part of a new drive to cut England’s elective care waiting lists. The government launched ...

The NHS will never work properly unless the government acts on social care, writes Richard Humphries After six months in power, the UK government has finally set out how it intends to tackle the ...

The government has announced several measures to cut waiting times for NHS elective treatment in England, including expanding community diagnostic centres, creating 14 new surgical hubs, and ...

Managing effects of climate change will have positive outcomes for health Prolonged debate on the terms of the pandemic treaty has highlighted the differences in how to tackle our global health ...

Alcoholic drinks should carry warnings about cancer risk like those that appear on cigarette packets because of the direct link between alcohol use and increased risk of at least seven types of cancer ...

NHS employers need a proactive and consistent approach to protecting the mental health of resident doctors, write Alexander Mafi and Jaya Sharma “No one else is going to look out for you in this job ...

It will take five to 10 years to evacuate all the critically ill people from Gaza waiting for urgent treatment if the “excruciatingly slow” pace of approvals continues, the World Health Organization ...

Headlines expressed shock and condemnation of the killing of a health insurance executive in New York. But public comment has been very different. Owen Dyer reports One should not speak ill of the ...

With a sense of inevitability and clear predictability, urgent and emergency care in the UK is rapidly heading into another winter of discontent. We are seeing signs that we will experience another ...