Empowering, participatory approaches are needed to improve quality of life and health outcomes for people with dementia, write Emily Ong and colleagues Dementia is the seventh leading cause of death ...

A survey by the Unite union1 has found that almost a fifth of female healthcare workers have experienced work related sexual assault. Unite counts 65 000 women in the healthcare sector among its ...

The government is to streamline the regulation of patient safety in England after a review concluded that there is “considerable duplication and overlap” between different organisations. The review, ...

Parliament’s spending watchdog has warned that badly managed private finance contracts could result in poor quality assets, including hospitals, being handed back to the public sector.1 The Public ...

Power and resource imbalances experienced by African non-government organisations must be remedied to ensure that people with lived experience in the global south can participate meaningfully in ...

Thousands of victims of the UK’s infected blood scandal have been “harmed further” by the operation of the compensation scheme set up by the government, the senior judge who chaired the public inquiry ...

The UK’s drug regulator has become the first in the world to approve elinzanetant to treat moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms (“hot flushes”) associated with the menopause. The once daily ...

Healthcare must be rebuilt to embed lived experience in design and delivery to tackle the structural homophobia and transphobia that contribute to poorer outcomes among gay and trans people, writes ...

Spain has overturned a decades old ban that prevented people with HIV from donating their organs, opening the door for transplantations between HIV positive individuals. The new regulation, published ...

Time to see lived experience as expertise, and make inclusive engagement business as usual It is indisputable that people should have a say in the healthcare decisions that affect them. “Lived ...

India’s medical regulatory authority has eased faculty recruitment rules to expand the pool of eligible teachers for medical colleges. But the move has drawn criticism from some, who warn that it ...

England’s children’s commissioner has warned that some children are facing “almost Dickensian” levels of poverty that should shame the country into tackling systemic failures in society. Commissioner ...