Many doctors face huge difficulties when trying to return after a career break. Adele Waters explores the support available Leaving medicine for the second time was devastating for former GP trainee ...

The government has named the 14 NHS hospital trusts whose maternity services will be investigated as part of a rapid national probe into systemic “failures.” The rapid national investigation into ...

Members of the House of Lords have debated whether the public will be adequately protected under plans to introduce assisted dying. Supporters of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill said it ...

Health secretary Wes Streeting has slammed what he called extraordinarily naive and self-defeating” general practitioners in a speech to the BMA. Streeting was speaking at the union’s special ...

Humiliation is often dismissed as banter, but doctors don’t have to put up with it, Elisabeth Mahase hears Cathy Finnegan, General Medical Council assistant director, standards and guidance, says, ...

Fallout from comments at the recent Reform UK party conference linking covid vaccines to cancers in the royal family continued last week with the prime minister wading into the controversy. Speaking ...

Taking a break from medicine shouldn’t feel like selling out, giving up, or failing to beat the competition, writes Stephanie Santos Paulo After two years working as a foundation doctor, I took a year ...

After decades in the making, legislation to create Australia’s first Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has been put before federal parliament.1 Australia’s incumbent Labour government first promised to ...