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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Asking people with type 2 diabetes their language and care preferences is vital to optimise outcomes globally, says Heather Koga As the US writer Ingrid Bengis said, “Words are a form of action, ...

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 ...

Empowering people with obesity is essential to reduce stigma and facilitate co-creation of more equitable and effective policies and programmes, write María Eugenia Anselmi, Johanna Ralston , and ...

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 ...

Bernard was a lifelong Mancunian and the first member of his family to attend university. His enthusiasm and aptitudes meant he struggled initially to choose a specialty, but he never regretted ...

New World Health Organization data show that an estimated six million deaths are caused each year in the Americas by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), 43% more than at the turn of the century. Most of ...

The government has pledged to “tackle bottlenecks in medical training pathways” by prioritising UK medical graduates for training places and creating 1000 additional specialty training posts within ...

The creation of neighbourhood health centres, announced last week in the government’s 10 year health plan,12 must not result in GP premises being “left to wither,” the chair of the BMA’s General ...

The latest NHS plan, published on 3 July, sets out the ideas and ambitions for the NHS in England over the next 10 years, adding a little more detail to the already stated aims of shifting activity to ...