After general practitioners (GPs) were publicly blamed by the UK health secretary for a crisis
in acute services, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) tells The Lancet that it …

Those working in England's National Health Service (NHS) would not have been surprised
to see the headlines at the start of the year reporting a crisis in accident and emergency …

Your recent Editorial “The end of our National Health Service”(Jan 29, p 353) 1 claims that
our plans to modernise and strengthen the National Health Service (NHS) will lead to its …

Hospital services in the UK are facing rounds of reconfiguration in an attempt to meet
changing patterns of demographics and disease. But what will future services look like? One …

Since 1948, general practitioners (GPs) in the UK have been funded by the National Health
Service (NHS) to provide primary medical care to every man, woman, and child. Now 66 …

A small earthquake has hit English medicine. Although elec tions take place annually, it is
customary for the Presi dent of the Royal College of Physicians to enjoy an uninterrupted 4 …

The accusation by Richard Horton in The Lancet (May 6, 2017, p 1783) 1 that it is
“intellectual delusion” to suggest the National Health Service (NHS) is in crisis is surprising …

It's now been just over a year since the Health and Social Care Act was granted Royal
assent and passed into law. A lot can happen in a year. The Health Secretary who brought …

“Four legs good, two legs bad”, bleat the sheep in unison in George Orwell's Animal Farm to
drown out intelligent criticism whenever it is raised. 1 “Community good, hospital bad”, has …

During the 2019 UK general election campaign, one thing united both the main political
parties, Conservatives and Labour: the fervency of their self-proclaimed “love” for the NHS …