GPs are to be paid a £20 fee for each call they make to a hospital specialist seeking to speed up treatment as part of a new drive to cut England’s elective care waiting lists. The government launched ...

The NHS will never work properly unless the government acts on social care, writes Richard Humphries After six months in power, the UK government has finally set out how it intends to tackle the ...

The government has announced several measures to cut waiting times for NHS elective treatment in England, including expanding community diagnostic centres, creating 14 new surgical hubs, and ...

NHS employers need a proactive and consistent approach to protecting the mental health of resident doctors, write Alexander Mafi and Jaya Sharma “No one else is going to look out for you in this job ...

It will take five to 10 years to evacuate all the critically ill people from Gaza waiting for urgent treatment if the “excruciatingly slow” pace of approvals continues, the World Health Organization ...

Alcoholic drinks should carry warnings about cancer risk like those that appear on cigarette packets because of the direct link between alcohol use and increased risk of at least seven types of cancer ...

Headlines expressed shock and condemnation of the killing of a health insurance executive in New York. But public comment has been very different. Owen Dyer reports One should not speak ill of the ...

Managing effects of climate change will have positive outcomes for health Prolonged debate on the terms of the pandemic treaty has highlighted the differences in how to tackle our global health ...

With a sense of inevitability and clear predictability, urgent and emergency care in the UK is rapidly heading into another winter of discontent. We are seeing signs that we will experience another ...

The UK is not a good place to be poor. It is not even a very good place if you are middle income or below. Over the past 14 years, life expectancy has not improved, health inequalities have increased, ...

Ethnic minority groups have regained their lower mortality Mortality rates in England and Wales have undergone remarkable changes over the past five years, with the pandemic bringing a surge not seen ...

Unresolved disagreements hinder progress towards the UN led treaty that could protect human and environmental health from the harms of plastic pollution, write Cressida Bowyer and Stephen Fletcher In ...