The global conversation is locked into trade deficits. While tariffs can be temporary, as we’re seeing, debt has a longer term impact. The question is, if we truly believe that people and countries ...

The health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, has said that he is reviewing the “bizarre situation” of UK medical graduates having to compete with doctors from overseas for jobs in the NHS.

The family of a doctor who took his own life within hours of receiving an email from the General Medical Council (GMC) has failed in their bid to sue the GMC for damages over his death.1 Sridharan ...

The chairs of the BMJ Commission on the Future of Academic Medicine set out principles for transforming academic medicine and to help improve population and planetary health Academic medicine is in ...

MPs grilled Wes Streeting about the government’s plan to take back control of running the health service. Gareth Iacobucci summarises the key takeaways Last month the UK government announced that it ...

Richard was born in Horsforth, West Yorkshire. From his boarding prep school (which he entered shortly before his fifth birthday) he won a scholarship to Epsom College. His maternal grandfather and ...

More focus needed to improve PPI reporting in research Patient and public involvement (PPI) has become a key part of health and social care research in many countries with a focus on working with or ...

Faced with a row over guidance to improve consistency on sentencing by the courts, the British government chose a populist narrative. This sends a worrying message to public health professionals ...

Stephen was born in Bristol in 1933, the son of a carpenter. He won a scholarship to Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital School before studying medicine at Bristol University. After graduation he worked at ...

New measures and legislation offer an opportunity to safeguard children from sexualised, violent, and other age-inappropriate online content, writes Rachel de Souza Throughout my time as Children’s ...

Babies and children aged three months to 11 years with uncomplicated community acquired pneumonia should be offered a three day rather than five day course of antibiotics, the National Institute for ...

Almost 700 medical students in the UK have been given “placeholder” jobs, meaning that they know the deanery they will be in when they start foundation training in August but not the hospital where ...