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Recurrent waves of the COVID-19 pandemic are having a huge impact on healthcare workers, and Medical Protection has called for more to be done. 

The government should divert the hundreds of millions of pounds being spent on the failing centralised privatised COVID-19 national test and trace service into local public health services.

A new coalition of nearly 80 organisations, brought together by the Royal College of Physicians, has been launched to press for urgent action to address health inequalities.

Educated 65-year-olds and above use considerably more NHS outpatient care than their less educated peers.

Leading surgeons are calling for hospital beds to be ring-fenced for planned operations, to avoid a ‘tsunami of cancellations’ during the second wave of Covid-19.

Podcasts are the perfect solution for swamped doctors stay up-to-date and maybe even learn a thing or two.

Often times, people find 'how are you' to be quite confronting, or too direct to open up about how they are truly feeling. 

When you’re stressed, it can feel like the weight of the world (and the ward) is on your shoulders

A newly-developed tool to help health professionals calculate the biological risk of an individual’s exposure to COVID-19 aims to help keep people safer.

The UK’s coronavirus vaccine is safe, causes few side effects, and induces strong immune responses in both parts of the immune system, the early stage trial shows.

The timing of the dissolution of Public Health England by the health secretary has been strongly criticised by health experts.

Doctor Doctor, who should I follow?! It's important to surround yourself with people who support you in real life, and online.

We’ve been looking at meditation as a way to achieve this moment of calm amongst the madness.

Life at a distance had just begun to feel routine, but just as quickly as lockdown restrictions were implemented, they are beginning to lift across the country.

Bringing a lunch to work not only reduces your spending, but reduces waste! 

The Government does not have a clear strategy to acquire and distribute the PPE required to protect clinical and care workers in a second wave of coronavirus.

It will take many NHS medical specialties up to a year or more to recover to pre-Coronavirus activity levels, research reveals

Dr Shanath Ramachandran, based at Leighton Hospital, Crewe, contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus after a busy week of clinical work during which cases were rapidly increasing across the UK, including in no ...

That is the message from an NHS Confederation report which warns that the health service in England faces an uphill battle as it restarts normal medical and surgical services. This challenge of managi ...

The team at Acute & General Medicine havee created this infographic to provide ideas for improving mental wellbeing.

What does coronavirus mean for my investments? Coronavirus has had a global impact, and there isn’t anyone that hasn’t felt the effect of the pandemic on their investments in one form or another. Ever ...

1. Choose carefully – quantity doesn’t mean quality Your spare time is precious, so try to avoid a “wide net” sign-up approach. Spend time making a list of clinical challenges you’re facing and/or a v ...

I won’t sugar coat this. I was scared. But, like riding the metaphorical bike, I knew I could do it. After all, 9 years of training as an A&E doctor before moving to the Medical Protection Society (MP ...

NHS Employers, the BMA and HCSA, have sought and received ministerial acknowledgement of the exceptional circumstances created by the pandemic, and the significant operational pressures that services ...