A series of bombings and armed assaults on the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, on 28 October has killed more than 460 patients and healthcare workers. Reports suggest ...

Gordon was born into a medical family: his father held senior surgical posts in Darlington and Birkenhead, and his mother was a nurse. Sadly, Gordon’s mother developed severe rheumatoid arthritis and ...

Douglas Garvie was born in Glasgow and attended Hutchesons’ Boys’ Grammar School, where he was school captain and was awarded the dux medal for top academic achievement. He graduated from the ...

An upcoming conference for health professionals is under fire for accepting sponsorship by formula milk companies. Clinicians and nutritionists have criticised the Infant Allergy and Paediatrics ...

Opher and Henry-Leach highlight the long neglected issue of mandated domestic abuse training for healthcare professionals.1 Our research in the field of domestic abuse in the palliative care context ...

NHS staff need to “build a broad movement to oppose the influence of racism and the far right,” doctors and other health workers say. In an open letter published in The BMJ a group of healthcare staff ...

On 24 October NHS England published the first phase of a review of the state of UK medical training.1 This “diagnostic” report has been badged as the starting point for a programme of reform in ...

Ministers are trying to “drive a wedge” between patients and GPs by comparing salaries of partners and the prime minister, the doctors’ union claims. In the latest exchange in a row over online ...

Plans to transform the NHS in England over the next decade will not succeed without substantial investment in management to professionalise and develop its role, a report from a leading healthcare ...

Robert Meade and colleagues highlight the need for research and solutions aimed at reducing heat at both work and home to protect the most vulnerable workers April 2025 brought an intense and ...

He qualified from Manchester University in 1964, and in 1971 he was awarded a doctorate for research into the treatment of urinary tract infection in general practice. He then joined the Peterloo ...

Tony was born in Consett, County Durham, and educated at Barnard Castle School and then The Queen’s College, Oxford. He played rugby as a hooker for his school, Consett, and Queen’s. After house jobs ...