Investing in the specialist workforce and overcoming access barriers is essential to successful delivery of this therapy in the NHS, write Jessie Enakhumhe and Yasmin Sheikh Casgevy, or exagamglogene ...

Sheena Asthana and colleagues consider how to realise the potential of digital health technologies to help older people maintain wellbeing and independence and reduce hospital demand The NHS faces a ...

Continuity of care is one of the great strengths of general practice. The evidence for its value is clear: better outcomes, fewer hospital admissions, more efficient use of healthcare resources.1 But ...

One Easter in the 1970s Sheila Clark, a paediatrician working in Sheffield, was on a pilgrimage to the Catholic shrine at Lourdes, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, when she joined a large group of ...

Rules on patient choice that govern cataract care in England are allowing private companies to make millions of pounds in profits from treating NHS patients and should be scrapped, campaigners have ...

Greater access to multidisciplinary bereavement services is essential Globally, more than 6.2 million children die before the age of 19 each year, with many of these deaths occurring suddenly or ...

Doctors are seeking public support for a campaign to increase GP funding in Scotland and warn that industrial action may follow if the Scottish government fails to respond. BMA Scotland said that ...

An executive order made by President Donald Trump on 23 April seeks to reform higher education accreditation in the US. The order directs the secretaries of education and health to review accreditors ...

The Royal College of Physicians has said it is “disappointing” that new General Medical Council guidance does not state that physician associates (PAs) must be supervised by a senior doctor. The BMA ...

Proposals for a new centralised care record are under the spotlight, amid worries about China gaining access to GP records through UK Biobank. Stephen Armstrong reports On 15 April the Guardian ...

There are certain things you can do, and not do, to support a colleague with a stammer, Abi Rimmer hears Sophia Williams, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, Brighton and Hove Child and ...

Thambirajah was born in Kuppilan, a village in the north of Sri Lanka. From these humble beginnings he showed relentless focus and commitment to become a doctor. He attended Skandavarodaya College, ...