The way we treat staff working in the healthcare system is crucial to the success of any reform, say Isabelle Brown and Laura Turner The NHS workforce is under considerable operational pressure at ...

Higginson and Ramjeeawon emphasise the urgent need to tackle inequality in access to hospice and end-of-life care.1 Central to this effort must be a deliberate focus on those living at the ...

AI therapy apps are increasingly being offered to patients needing mental health support as services struggle to keep up with demand. Alexander Mafi explores the advantages and possible pitfalls of ...

A lifelong approach is needed for safe and personalised care Achieving safe, personalised, and equitable maternal health services with a lifelong focus is not a new vision,1 yet data suggest we are ...

In a surprising ruling, the administration of US president Donald Trump has defended the abortion pill mifepristone against an attempt to restrict its supply by mail to people in three states. Idaho, ...

A role for primary care Advances in intensive care medicine have improved survival rates, yet post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remains a prevalent and often underdiagnosed consequence among ...

As a co-founder of the British Paediatric Respiratory Group at the University of Edinburgh, and later as professor of child health at the University of Leicester, Hamish Simpson helped to establish ...