Despite initiatives to reverse the trend, UK trained doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds and international medical graduates still have poorer academic outcomes than their white peers. Aisha ...

Racism in the NHS continues to be a problem, towards patients and also colleagues.1 Training courses in equality, diversity, and inclusion are mandatory everywhere, but the evidence that they make a ...

A coroner has demanded specialist medical care for women going through the menopause after a teacher aged 54 killed herself by driving into the path of a heavy goods vehicle. The senior coroner for ...

Launer’s reflection on a role playing exercise brilliantly exposes prevailing clinical practice, where adherence to protocol may restrict our ability to make better contact with patients.1 As trainers ...

Being a doctor is a huge privilege. We’re present and trusted at the major points in life: births, deaths, medical interventions and decisions, and navigating long term conditions. Many of these ...

Government plans to speed up access to elective surgery will favour the wealthiest people in UK society unless explicit rationing is introduced to enable the poorest to get faster treatment, a ...

Low levels of resistance have been detected against one of the newest antibiotics, ceftazidime-avibactam, which has been used in the NHS since 2017, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has warned.

Photo: Steven Pocock This hanging sculpture, called Look Up My Nose , is designed to produce as little audible sound as possible, while maximising the vibrations felt by anyone standing ...

Deaths from avoidable causes remain higher in England and Wales than before the covid-19 pandemic, with rates highest in areas of deprivation, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.1 ...

Healthcare professionals should not perform female genital mutilation (FGM) as this legitimises the practice and hampers efforts to end it, the World Health Organization has said in new guidance.1 ...

A widespread power outage affected much of Spain on Monday 28 April, disrupting key infrastructure and raising concerns over the resilience of healthcare services. In a late night statement the ...

The US intersex health equity report is a step towards providing the bodily autonomy and health equity that intersex children and adults deserve, write Sam L Sharpe, Erika Lorshbough, and Marissa ...