Asking people with type 2 diabetes their language and care preferences is vital to optimise outcomes globally, says Heather Koga As the US writer Ingrid Bengis said, “Words are a form of action, ...

Power and resource imbalances experienced by African non-government organisations must be remedied to ensure that people with lived experience in the global south can participate meaningfully in ...

Time to see lived experience as expertise, and make inclusive engagement business as usual It is indisputable that people should have a say in the healthcare decisions that affect them. “Lived ...

Empowering people with obesity is essential to reduce stigma and facilitate co-creation of more equitable and effective policies and programmes, write María Eugenia Anselmi, Johanna Ralston , and ...

Bernard was a lifelong Mancunian and the first member of his family to attend university. His enthusiasm and aptitudes meant he struggled initially to choose a specialty, but he never regretted ...

New World Health Organization data show that an estimated six million deaths are caused each year in the Americas by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), 43% more than at the turn of the century. Most of ...

The government has pledged to “tackle bottlenecks in medical training pathways” by prioritising UK medical graduates for training places and creating 1000 additional specialty training posts within ...

GPs in Northern Ireland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking collective action in an attempt to force improvements to the 2025-26 General Medical Services (GMS) contract which was imposed on ...

Sustainable change requires improved study design, market incentives, and patient involvement, write Kate Womersley and colleagues For too long, medical research has defaulted to male physiology, ...

Robin was born in Welbeck Street, London, at a private hospital to Frank and Margery Marsh. He spent his early childhood in Persia, now Iran, where Frank was director of pathology for the ...

The creation of neighbourhood health centres, announced last week in the government’s 10 year health plan,12 must not result in GP premises being “left to wither,” the chair of the BMA’s General ...

The latest NHS plan, published on 3 July, sets out the ideas and ambitions for the NHS in England over the next 10 years, adding a little more detail to the already stated aims of shifting activity to ...