With the second wave of the pandemic sweeping across Europe there is now more that unites the Scandinavian approaches than divides them. Heba Habib reports More than half a year since the pandemic began, the Public Health Agency of Sweden still insists that the core of their strategy was not about building natural “herd immunity.” Sweden’s controversial pandemic policy has been both lambasted…
An evaluation of the NHS digital weight management programme shows that people who completed it lost 3.9 kg over 12 weeks. When everyone who started…
The number of adverse impacts on health related to extreme weather and climate events is continuing to rise in Europe, an EU report1 has found.…
Cardiologist Tharusha Gunawardena tells Helen Jones about his passion for Brazilian jiujitsu “I’m talking with a bit of a lisp because I got hit in…
Canadians support it, public health demands it, now policy makers must deliver it Canada’s universal healthcare system, often referred to as Medicare, provides universal, public…
NHS England is exploring ways it can reduce the amount of statutory and mandatory training that doctors undertake, to free up clinicians’ time to care…
Drug regulators in several African countries have recalled a batch of Johnson & Johnson children’s cough syrup after officials in Nigeria reported high levels of…
Ministers must do more to anticipate shortages of medicines in the UK, which have become shockingly severe and have become a “new normal” since Brexit,…
After years of underfunding, being undervalued, and issues around pay and working conditions, something finally seems to have changed for doctors. Whisper it softly, but…
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…
Chronically underfunded and with hundreds of thousands of roles vacant, social care is in crisis, piling pressure on frontline services and GPs. One solution comes…
