Resident doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in their campaign for full pay restoration. In response to the result, the BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee urged the ...

A former Shetland GP has been struck off the UK medical register after a medical practitioners tribunal found that he was aggressive towards two female doctors and broke the rules on examining ...

The government is to streamline the regulation of patient safety in England after a review concluded that there is “considerable duplication and overlap” between different organisations. The review, ...

Stevens M, Brimblecombe N, Gowen S, Skyer R, Moriarty J. Young carers’ experiences of services and support: What is helpful and how can support be improved? PLOS One 2024;19:e0300551. To read the full ...

Power and resource imbalances experienced by African non-government organisations must be remedied to ensure that people with lived experience in the global south can participate meaningfully in ...

Healthcare must be rebuilt to embed lived experience in design and delivery to tackle the structural homophobia and transphobia that contribute to poorer outcomes among gay and trans people, writes ...

Asking people with type 2 diabetes their language and care preferences is vital to optimise outcomes globally, says Heather Koga As the US writer Ingrid Bengis said, “Words are a form of action, ...

Empowering, participatory approaches are needed to improve quality of life and health outcomes for people with dementia, write Emily Ong and colleagues Dementia is the seventh leading cause of death ...

Empowering people with obesity is essential to reduce stigma and facilitate co-creation of more equitable and effective policies and programmes, write María Eugenia Anselmi, Johanna Ralston , and ...

Bernard was a lifelong Mancunian and the first member of his family to attend university. His enthusiasm and aptitudes meant he struggled initially to choose a specialty, but he never regretted ...

Time to see lived experience as expertise, and make inclusive engagement business as usual It is indisputable that people should have a say in the healthcare decisions that affect them. “Lived ...

New World Health Organization data show that an estimated six million deaths are caused each year in the Americas by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), 43% more than at the turn of the century. Most of ...