England’s maternity care shame
A new report into England's maternity services has found a system unfit for purpose.
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Wes Streeting: “I don’t want to be the fun police”
The Health Secretary on Labour’s killjoy image and why the NHS will “go bust” without reform.
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AI won’t solve all of medicine’s problems
Technology is invaluable to the future of healthcare – but we must also be realistic.
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How the fight against sleeping sickness was won
We are closer than ever before to consigning the “the colonial disease” to history.
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Keir Starmer’s populist smoking ban
The British public love to ban things - even when they have no skin in the game.
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Medicine wars
A revolt over patient safety and declining expertise is tearing the medical establishment apart.
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The report into the case of Valdo Calocane may impact the government’s commitment to “modernise” the Mental Health Act.
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Hundreds of doctors are challenging the BMA’s stance on puberty blockers
In a letter to the association’s UK Council chair, 870 doctors have expressed “dismay” at the union’s criticism of the…
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