More than 800 million adults around the world now have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, a global analysis has estimated—more than four times the number in 1990. Almost six in 10 adults aged over 30 with ...

Benjamin Goodair and colleagues argue that growth of private provision in adult social care in England has resulted in worse care and should be rolled back Adult social care in England is in crisis.

The current system for delivering NHS cardiovascular disease (CVD) health checks is not working effectively and must be reviewed to ensure that it reaches people with the highest risk, the National ...

The devastating power and impact of the flash floods that swept through eastern Spain from 29 October is captured in this image from the city of Valencia. More than 200 people … ...

The government is set to introduce a public league table to rank NHS providers in England and reward the top performers, including by allowing them to keep budget surpluses and choose how they ...

Nichols and colleagues describe the use of reusable devices for applying cold sensation when assessing regional anaesthesia.1 I find the concept of these reusable devices commendable, but perhaps ...

At one of my first meetings as an elected council member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, we approved a report called Access All Ages . It encouraged less ageist thinking and bias among ...

In late 1999, the US Institute of Medicine’s report “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” galvanized the nascent patient safety movement into action ...

NHS staff felt the “strain and the trauma” of having to look after patients with covid-19 whose close family and relatives could not be there to offer support, NHS England’s national medical director ...

The spread of misinformation and disinformation about climate change and health is of great concern to society.1 The healthcare community must engage in climate change education with at least as ...

At a recent clinical meeting, I heard that GPs local to me are about to lose the ability to request magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans for patients presenting with musculoskeletal symptoms. We’re ...

Concerns are mounting over whether the NHS can meet key performance targets this winter, NHS Providers has said, after a survey of trust leaders highlighted pressure on hospitals, ambulance services, ...