The UK government has set out a bold mission to improve the nation’s health. This is an urgent and essential task, not just to improve individual wellbeing, but because poor health is a huge drain on ...

Almost 200 leading doctors, professional bodies, and charities are calling on the chancellor to use the forthcoming budget to introduce a “polluter pays” levy on the tobacco industry. In an open ...

Brian Wilkey was born in Bristol in 1934 and attended Bristol Grammar School before going to Exeter College, Oxford. He graduated in 1958. He continued his medical career at University College ...

NHS staff in England will now be able to anonymously report incidents of sexual misconduct at work after the launch of a new system to improve safety for staff. A new framework issued to local ...

I recently attended an educational event where I’d been asked to spend the afternoon teaching some of my favourite subjects, such as uncertainty and complexity. The morning was devoted to hardcore ...

Since August many GPs have been taking part in collective action: not a strike but a push back against rising levels of extracontractual work.12 This action has 10 elements, but the most prominent is ...

Demonising cannabis has not reduced harms and has kept the drug from patients who might benefit from it, say David Nutt and Lucy Stafford in this 2024 Maudsley debate. But Laura Stack and Robin Murray ...

Four former food company executives, nutrition experts, and campaigners have written an open letter to food business leaders calling for them to clamp down on the production of ultra-processed and ...

In August 2020, five months after the World Health Organization had declared a global pandemic, the UK government announced its decision to scrap England’s national public health agency, Public Health ...

The world remains “acutely vulnerable” to the next pandemic threat, despite improvements in surveillance and pandemic response capacity being “better than ever,” the Global Preparedness Monitoring ...

The fact that younger patients with cancer are now offered the chance to have their eggs, embryos, or semen preserved before chemotherapy or radiotherapy is largely down to the efforts of Talha ...

The publishers of the Mail on Sunday have apologised and agreed to pay substantial libel damages and costs to a GP and a nutritional scientist whom the paper accused of knowingly making false ...