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The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has called for more support for GP partnerships to “remain a realistic option” for general practice among other approaches to working in primary care.
A £450m government plan to improve urgent and emergency care in England and avert a winter crisis could have shown more ambition in tackling longer waiting times, doctors’ leaders have said. The Royal ...
Stuart was born in Banff, Aberdeenshire, to Agnes, a nurse, and Eric, the local doctor. When Stuart was 6 the family moved to Bieldside and later to Greenock, near Glasgow, where Eric became medical ...
Callum was appointed as a consultant geriatrician and general physician at West Middlesex Hospital in 2002, after registrar training in London. He was a highly respected clinician who initiated and ...
The Trump administration has revoked guidance that required hospitals to provide emergency abortions to stabilise a patient’s condition even in states with severe abortion restrictions—but in a way ...
One million excess deaths were linked to deprivation between 2009 and 2020, Michael Marmot has told the Royal College of Physicians annual conference. Speaking at a discussion on health inequalities, ...
Renewed focus on improving social care is required Dementia is the leading cause of death in England and Wales,1 and 982 000 people are estimated to have a form of dementia in the UK.2 Although there ...
Drug industry stock prices dropped when Donald Trump announced his intention to lower drug prices through executive decree, but in the end the markets had the final word. Share prices fell in early ...
Health officials are investigating rising numbers of serious yeast infections in England in the past year, including cases ...
An executive order by Donald Trump promising to “restore the American people’s faith in the scientific enterprise” would ...
US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said during a podcast interview that the Trump administration will stop government ...
A reset of the global aid system must be guided by key principles to respond to current challenges and rebuild global ...