A large NHS GP partnership has sold the digital triage and online consultation platform that it developed for its patients to a private health technology company. The Hurley Group of GPs in southeast ...

The government is launching a “red tape challenge” to cut down on bureaucracy and free up GPs’ time, Wes Streeting has said. In a speech at the annual conference of the Royal College of General ...

The chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners has condemned “devastating” new figures showing that GPs in deprived areas of England are responsible for at least 300 more patients per doctor ...

Physician associates (PAs) should not be carrying out medical examinations of children who have reported abuse or who are at risk of abuse and should not produce evidence for courts, forensic doctors ...

Rising deaths related to heat should be a wake-up call to governments for the sake of people’s health and economies, reports Elisabeth Mahase Heat stress, an “invisible killer” that can lead to ...

With 3.5 million people in need, a doctor exodus, and some regions served by the very military group that Israel seeks to rout, Lebanon’s healthcare system is in crisis. Sally Howard reports On 1 ...

Global temperatures will continue to rise due to climate change, with high temperature periods expected to increase in intensity, frequency, and duration. Infectious diseases, including vector-borne ...

NHS leaders are considering a phased rollout of the obesity injection tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Eli Lilly) because of potentially high demand. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) ...

Access to urgently needed mpox vaccines in Africa is being hampered by the refusal of leading vaccine manufacturer Bavarian Nordic to share its technology and disclose its prices, a consumer rights ...

Lebanon’s healthcare system is facing “immense challenges” after five facilities were targeted in airstrikes and 38 staff were killed, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian ...

The number of adults in England who use e-cigarettes despite never regularly smoking tobacco has risen sharply to around a million people, a study has found.1 Researchers at University College London ...

A senior consultant paediatrician has told the Thirlwall inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of newborns at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015-16 that he feels “ashamed” for ...