Prime Minister Andy Burnham has appointed Yvette Cooper as the new health secretary. Number 10 confirmed that the former foreign secretary and MP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley will serve ...

The full agenda for Pulse LIVE Newcastle has been unveiled, featuring a session focussed on analysing and explaining the new ...

The BMA has said it forced a Government 'climbdown' from its plans for the GMC to retain its right to appeal ...

NHS England has now launched an eight-week consultation on the proposed new neighbourhood contract models – including further detail on what multi-neighbourhood and single neighbourhood providers are ...

GPs are taking additional specialist medicine training in their own time, to feel ‘safe’ practising under the expansion of ...

Newly-qualified salaried GPs feel they have ‘no choice’ but to work 13-hour days, a new BMA campaign has claimed. The BMA sessional GPs committee’s newly-launched ‘Know Your Rights’ campaign features ...

In our latest CPD module, Professor (Hon.) James Hull, consultant pulmonologist and lead for the chronic cough service at Royal Brompton Hospital in London, answers key questions on persistent cough.

Highly commended in ‘The case that still gives me nightmares’ category, Dr Philippa Vincent recounts how a near miss with a remote consultation and oximeter readings in the pandemic still keeps her up ...

A routine MenB vaccination programme should be introduced for 15-year-olds, government advisors have recommended. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) reviewed the evidence after ...

Recommendations from the four Chief Medical Officers repeat earlier advice to do at least 150 minutes of exercise a week. But there is new focus on why small amounts of movement – such as taking the ...