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NHS

The NHS category focuses on the people, policies and challenges shaping the UK’s publicly funded health service. It offers thoughtful analysis of organisational change, workforce issues, funding and performance, along with debate on how to improve care delivery and health outcomes. From insights into frontline practice to discussion of strategic priorities and reforms, this category brings clarity to the complex forces influencing the future of health and care in the NHS.

AF patients left at risk of stroke

Hundreds of patients with Atrial Fibrillation (AF) in the UK have been left at risk of suffering a life threatening AF-related stroke, thanks to NHS...
AF patients left at risk of stroke

The short life of Charlie Gard

The short life of Charlie Gard seems now to be coming to an end. His parents have conceded that their son can spend his final...
The short life of Charlie Gard

NHS doctor shortages – Obs & Gynae

This week, figures released showed that the NHS faces an 'unprecedented workforce crisis' with NHS doctor shortages, as vacancies rise 10 per cent in the...
NHS doctor shortages – Obs & Gynae

Royal Society of Medicine prizes

Winning medical prizes, bursaries or awards can bring great benefits to doctors starting out on their careers. As well achieving recognition for the quality of...
Royal Society of Medicine prizes

Keeping nurses interested

New figures from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) have revealed that more nurses and midwives are leaving the profession in the UK than joining...
Keeping nurses interested

The truth behind health tourism

“Doctors are not border patrol,” Dr Paquita de Zulueta stresses, “nor are we the Home Office." Such distinctions - no matter how forceful - do not...
The truth behind health tourism

Then and now – your bones

Today three million woman in the UK are diagnosed with so-called brittle bone disease, but back in the 1960s, it was poorly understood. Old ladies...
Then and now – your bones