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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is a current emphasis on transformation in the NHS being driven as close to the patient as possible, namely by focusing on neighbourhoods. General practice represents the largest number of ...

Doctors should provide high quality, evidence based care reflecting individual preferences and needs, regardless of weight, argue Juan Franco and colleagues Doctors have traditionally recommended ...

Treatment requires a personalised approach When women reach the menopause, they can face difficulties in accessing good advice about management of their symptoms. The challenge for their healthcare ...

The UK’s drug regulator is to study possible serious side effects of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, including semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro). Data from ...

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 ...

When it comes to protecting patients from ill health, neglect, or bureaucratic misjudgment, it helps to have a fighter on your side. Scotland had Matthew Dunnigan, an innovative consultant physician ...

Vaccine hesitancy may not be as big a factor as poor access, new research finds. Emma Wilkinson looks at what NHS organisations are doing to make it easier for parents to get their children immunised ...

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 ...

Recognition of sepsis remains an “urgent and persistent safety risk” despite extensive national initiatives and awareness campaigns, England’s patient safety watchdog has warned. The Health Services ...