Attempts to ensure children have easy access to vaccinations through the NHS are too often thwarted by unnecessary barriers, child health experts have warned. Hard to book appointments, inconvenient ...

India’s organ transplantation programme is crippled by insufficient funding, a shortage of specialised doctors, and procedural delays, especially in its public hospitals, according to an official ...

Has the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)—which pays GPs for recording processes and achieving clinical outcomes—led to improvements in patient care? This is the question that Ho and colleagues ...

A new healthy food standard will force supermarkets and food manufacturers to encourage people to make healthier food choices, the government has said. The move, which will be introduced as part of ...

The recent shake-up of abortion laws in England and Wales marks an important moment for abortion rights, but full decriminalisation remains essential, say Jayne Kavanagh and Hayley Webb We welcomed ...

The origins of SARS-CoV-2 remain unsolved, concludes the full report from the World Health Organization’s Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO).1 Despite more than three ...

The prevalence of mental ill health in England is worsening, with higher numbers of people experiencing problems and less than half receiving any treatment, NHS survey data suggest. The proportion of ...

A watchdog has declared a social media influencer in serious breach of UK advertising rules for “potentially harmful” promotions of a saffron based food supplement marketed to people with attention ...

Infrastructure and inclusion are key to the rollout of AI Crisis aversion for the NHS lies in the greater use of technology, according to the UK government. This includes greater use of AI, to shift ...

We should pay more attention to upstream prevention, which is vital for the nation’s health, write Trevor Sheldon and John Wright It is a consistent failing of governments to be seduced by the lure of ...

Over the past 10 years, with advancements in technology facilitating our ability to record easily with our mobile devices, the Medical Protection Society (MPS) has seen a rise in the number of doctors ...

Two of three strains of wild poliovirus have been defeated, but a quiet emergence of vaccine derived strains raises tough questions about how the world chose to finish the job. Yemisi Bokinni picks up ...