David Dawson Hilton was born in Manchester in 1933. He went to William Hulme’s Grammar School in Whalley Range and studied medicine at Manchester University. He met Marie Lythgoe, a student nurse, at ...

A “culture of blame” often discourages NHS doctors and other staff from speaking up about the effects of fatigue on the safety of patients, a report has warned. The Health Services Safety ...

We must unite against harmful cuts and work towards a society that values Disabled people as equal citizens, writes Fazilet Hadi I have been a Disabled person since losing my sight in my teenage years ...

Healthcare workers and medical students are among those protesting the Indian government’s public-private partnership (PPP) model of healthcare, which is increasingly being adopted by states. The ...

Trump’s freeze of USAID funded health projects1 has delayed the delivery of lifesaving, low cost interventions and threatened critical measurement initiatives including data systems that monitor the ...

Ruthie Jeanneret and Stevie Martin consider how requirements for prospective approval affect access to assisted dying Access to assisted dying is being considered in several countries, and the Isle of ...

A palliative care doctor in Berlin has been charged with the murder of 15 patients. The 40 year old male physician who has not been named, in line with standard German practice, is accused of ...

The journal of the American College of Chest Physicians, Chest , is one of at least three medical journals to have received a letter from a senior federal prosecutor suggesting that they have misled ...

Increasing access to general practice through tools such as remote consultations is likely to reduce continuity of care and patient satisfaction, researchers have concluded. A report by the Institute ...

US citizens seeking information about covid-19 on the government’s official covid websites are now redirected to a page asserting that the coronavirus was leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, and ...

Martin and colleagues take us back to the 1950s with their call for reactive care for symptomatic demand rather than anticipating asymptomatic needs.1 Their “worthwhile” number needed to treat (NNT) ...

Enshittification was Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year in 2024 and is relevant to the decline of health services with increased privatisation, write Fran Baum , Julia Anaf , and Paul Laris A new ...