NHS England issued a press release announcing a “nationwide rollout” of an “artificial intelligence tool that predicts falls and viruses.”1 It said that the tool, developed by the care provider Cera, ...

The latest mass firings in critical US health services are short sighted, cruel, and ignorant, writes Esther Choo This week is National Public Health Week in the United States and perhaps the saddest ...

Patients in hospital emergency departments are being put at risk because they are not getting time critical medication (TCM) for chronic conditions such as diabetes and Parkinson’s disease on time, ...

Sea, East Sussex, in 1924. Her father, Robert Burns, a classics scholar, had been a colonial administrator in St Kitts and West Africa, while her mother, a highly independent Glaswegian woman, had ...

A plastic surgeon has been found guilty by a jury of attempting to murder a senior colleague and burn down his house after falling out with him more than 10 years ago. Peter Brooks, 61, was three days ...

The commission is an opportunity to build consensus on social care reform, writes Mary Daly In January 2025, the UK government announced that an independent commission is to be set up on social care ...

The UK government should train and employ more health visitors and school nurses as part of a package of measures to tackle the rise in mental health problems among children and young people, a ...

The US has reported 6600 cases of whooping cough (pertussis) in the first three months of 2025, more than four times the number at the same point last year and 25 times as many as had been reported at ...