This year has seen a double dose of optimism in the field of HIV prevention. First, on 20 June 2024, came the results of the Purpose-1 trial in South Africa and Uganda.1 This randomised controlled ...

Creating workplace boundaries can be extremely challenging.1 Most of us go into the profession because we want to help others, and throughout training we are often rewarded when we overextend ...

Rimmer reports four doctors’ views on saying no to patients.1 The reasons for medicine becoming a service industry are the lack of time and potential extra workload associated with requests from ...

The Labour government has an opportunity to not only reverse the harmful immigration legislation introduced by the previous government, but implement reforms to protect the mental health of those ...

Rimmer discusses ways to tackle the difficulties that doctors face in refusing to fully satisfy their patients’ needs and desires.1 Perhaps we should not say “no,” but “why?” Exploring patients’ ideas ...

The maternal death rate in the UK is at its highest for 20 years, with thrombosis and thromboembolism the leading cause of death, according to a major report. The latest MBRRACE-UK report, Saving ...

When trusted professionals speak up, people listen Over the past century, Earth’s average temperature has risen by more than 1.3°C, a clear sign that something is wrong. Ambient temperatures are ...

Ara Darzi’s report on the NHS finds much key infrastructure seriously degraded.1 Crucially, it identifies weakness in leadership, management structures, and capacity among the main drivers of ...