Robin was born in Welbeck Street, London, at a private hospital to Frank and Margery Marsh. He spent his early childhood in Persia, now Iran, where Frank was director of pathology for the ...

GPs in Northern Ireland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking collective action in an attempt to force improvements to the 2025-26 General Medical Services (GMS) contract which was imposed on ...

Sustainable change requires improved study design, market incentives, and patient involvement, write Kate Womersley and colleagues For too long, medical research has defaulted to male physiology, ...

Public health must reclaim digital spaces to boost trust Outbreaks of measles, which is both deadly and readily preventable, are symptoms of a global health system in trouble. Between 2022 and 2023, ...

A mosquito borne virus that causes mass livestock abortions has killed hundreds of people in East Africa—and climate change is accelerating its spread. Frank Burkybile reports on the growing threat of ...

Laura Schmidt and colleagues identify systemic financial conflicts of interest that serve as a cautionary tale for users of medical guidelines Prescribing glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor ...

The government has vowed that its 10 year health plan for England can save the NHS. Matthew Limb examines its key pledges ### The pledge: “By 2035 the majority of outpatient care will happen outside ...

Jim Mackey, chief executive of NHS England, recently said the quiet part out loud: the NHS can sometimes see patients as an inconvenience.1 It’s a stark observation, but it resonates deeply with ...

Mary was born in Glasgow in 1937 but moved with her family to Essex in the 1940s, following her father’s work in the army. They returned to Scotland when Mary was in her late teens. Mary’s mother ...

The government’s 10 year plan for England’s NHS, Fit for the Future , was published on 3 July.1 But can it deliver the goal set in its title? Is it an actual plan or more a set of ambitions, and what ...

Chris was always destined for medicine, not least because his father and elder brother had also been doctors. While he remained a northerner at heart (he was born in Burnley, then studied in Liverpool ...

Public health has considerable potential to reduce the number of early deaths, and data from the Office for National Statistics show the scale of the opportunities for prevention in relation to ...