A council in England has set up its own covid-19 contact tracing system because of a surge of local coronavirus cases and frustration with the government’s NHS Test and Trace scheme. Lisa McNally, director of public health at Sandwell Council, said that she had taken the step because four in 10 cases were going untraced and the spread of the virus risked a local lockdown. “We need to do it…
Doctors in the first year of foundation training who have yet to be allocated to the jobs they are expected to start on 7 August…
Objective To investigate the potential association between prenatal opioid exposure and the risk of neuropsychiatric disorders in children. Design Nationwide birth cohort study. Setting From…
The long term harms of alcohol are being minimised in industry funded education, find Madlen Davies and Hristio Boytchev Universities and schools are being urged…
On 21 April a woman with a rare and incurable disease became the first person in Peru to die with medical assistance, potentially opening the…
Chloe Milton describes the challenges of being left handed in clinical environments that are designed for righthanded use The surgeon glared at me. When I…
The World Medical Association (WMA) has called for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza after its council passed a resolution put forward by the BMA.…
Doctor activists are in the news. Sarah Benn, a former GP from Birmingham, has had her medical licence suspended for five months after being arrested…
The success of NHS Practitioner Health shows that the unique demands of working in healthcare merit a tailored response, says Zaid Al-Najjar “If you build…
A common complaint about the NHS is that it’s not so much a health service as an illness service and that we’d be a healthier,…
