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 ...

More than 200 health regulatory agencies and bodies that represent patients are to be abolished by the government as part of its 10 year health plan. Agencies that assess quality in health and care, ...

England’s health watchdog has urged doctors to act quickly when they suspect a stroke, even if a patient presents with atypical symptoms, after a rise in the number of investigations carried out ...

The newly appointed US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has announced two working groups that will review the US children’s vaccination schedule. Opening the first ACIP meeting ...

When Graham Serjeant arrived in Jamaica in 1966, it was accepted wisdom that few of those affected by sickle cell disease (SCD) survived beyond childhood. Yet he encountered adult patients living with ...

The Marmot review’s author spoke to the WIRED Health conference about “proportionate universalism,” racism, and a million UK children living in destitution. Mun-Keat Looi reports ### Biography Michael ...

Education in equitable practice and decoloniality in global health must begin early in medics’ careers if medicine is to progress away from extractive practices, writes Lim Ying Jia, Nicole The roots ...

Clear guidance is necessary as the recording of consultations by patients and clinicians becomes the norm, write Waseem Jerjes and Azeem Majeed Patients recording their consultations is becoming an ...

Attempts to ensure children have easy access to vaccinations through the NHS are too often thwarted by unnecessary barriers, child health experts have warned. Hard to book appointments, inconvenient ...

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 ...

India’s organ transplantation programme is crippled by insufficient funding, a shortage of specialised doctors, and procedural delays, especially in its public hospitals, according to an official ...

Has the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)—which pays GPs for recording processes and achieving clinical outcomes—led to improvements in patient care? This is the question that Ho and colleagues ...