From Whitehall and Westminster, the NHS can look like an enormous machine made of units of governance, categories of activity, and financial flows. But from my point of view, having spent most of my ...

More advanced methods may enable better modelling Parkinson’s disease is a considerable health problem owing to its high and rising global prevalence, its progressively degenerative nature, and its ...

Targeted NHS retention schemes have helped to reduce the number of doctors and other staff leaving the health service, NHS England has reported. NHS data show that one in 10 (10.1%) hospital and ...

Within hours of being sworn in, President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO).1 On 30 January 2025, just 10 days later, a ...

NHS England published its priorities and operational planning guidance for 2025-26,12 outlining key improvement objectives for the NHS for the first time since Labour took office in 2024. Meanwhile, ...

International women’s day falls on 8 March every year. As the outgoing president of the Medical Women’s Federation, I want this year’s celebration to be followed by action. The number of women doctors ...

Prevention bombshell” would have been a good cover line for The BMJ issue that included Martin and colleagues’ article1—a mushrooming cloud would be an effective representation of the unthinking creep ...

The Darzi review revealed billions of pounds worth of unmet maintenance needs and the shocking state of NHS buildings. Kathy Oxtoby speaks to doctors from the four UK nations about their experiences ...

The new US health secretary and noted vaccine critic Robert F Kennedy Jr has changed tack after drawing criticism last week for calling a fast spreading Texas measles outbreak “not unusual” at a Trump ...

Local and central government can do more to promote healthy housing, write Isobel Braithwaite and colleagues The quality and affordability of UK housing is poor relative to international ...

Sara Riggare highlights the importance of trust and dialogue when making treatment decisions I have been living with Parkinson’s disease for four decades and, as a result, am almost fluent in ...

I’m often amazed by the slim margins that separate success and failure. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Noah Lyles won the men’s 100 m sprint by just 0.005 seconds, with the top seven athletes all ...