EMPOWERING patients is viewed by many as a crucial step to delivering sustainable, personalised healthcare fit for the 21st century.

CERTAIN things are sadly inevitable every winter, including the increase in patients presenting in GP surgeries with sore throats, earaches, sinusitis, colds and other flu-like illnesses – but also the upsurge in demand for antibiotics.

The NHS has faced unprecedented pressures this winter. Insight asks the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Tajek Hassan, what is needed to put the service on a more secure footing

Allan Gaw recounts the famous Gillick case and events leading up to a landmark decision on medical consent in children

A new system for CPD was rolled out to dentists in January and here GDC policy manager Jessica Rothnie answers – why the change?

I AM a GP working increasingly long hours at the surgery and still falling behind. What should I do?

ETHICAL practice is never more remarkable than when it occurs under pressure.

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