Personal health budgets aim to give patients greater control in managing their care – but are they fair and effective?

Opioid addiction has reached crisis proportions in the US – but UK prescribers also face increasing risk.

Dr Allan Gaw offers examples of how art can be used to enrich medical education

Insight chats with ST6 surgeon David Riding about a high-profile RCS Edinburgh campaign to stop bullying in surgical training and beyond

Dental adviser Sarah Harford considers the role human factors can play in clinical error

OUR PRACTICE has received an anonymous letter informing us that a patient has been selling his prescription medicine

PROFESSOR Deborah Bowman reflects on how practice makes perfect, even in ethics

Book review by Dr Greg Dollman

Key figure in understanding essential hypertension