Mary was born in Glasgow in 1937 but moved with her family to Essex in the 1940s, following her father’s work in the army. They returned to Scotland when Mary was in her late teens. Mary’s mother ...

The government has vowed that its 10 year health plan for England can save the NHS. Matthew Limb examines its key pledges ### The pledge: “By 2035 the majority of outpatient care will happen outside ...

The government’s 10 year plan for England’s NHS, Fit for the Future , was published on 3 July.1 But can it deliver the goal set in its title? Is it an actual plan or more a set of ambitions, and what ...

Jim Mackey, chief executive of NHS England, recently said the quiet part out loud: the NHS can sometimes see patients as an inconvenience.1 It’s a stark observation, but it resonates deeply with ...

Rates of metabolic and bariatric surgeries (MBS) rose by almost 15% in teenagers in the US between 2021 and 2023, despite falling in adults, new research has found. The cross-sectional analysis, ...

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health conditions are responsible for more than 43 million deaths annually. It is critical that the upcoming United Nations general assembly high level ...

Public health has considerable potential to reduce the number of early deaths, and data from the Office for National Statistics show the scale of the opportunities for prevention in relation to ...

In an inauspicious beginning to one of the biggest weeks in the NHS’s history, England’s Department of Health and Social Care press released its NHS 10 year plan without providing an embargoed copy of ...

US president Donald Trump’s major economic bill will be signed into law on 4 July, after a week of intense debate saw it narrowly passed by both the Senate and House of Representatives. Estimates say ...

Chris was always destined for medicine, not least because his father and elder brother had also been doctors. While he remained a northerner at heart (he was born in Burnley, then studied in Liverpool ...

The evidence and policy options for eliminating inequity are clear; what is needed now is political and institutional commitment and action, say J S Bamrah and colleagues Despite the NHS being founded ...

Recent developments that have caused concern include removing all members of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccines and replacing them ...