Balm of hurt minds: the search for a good night's sleep

For Guy Leschziner’s patients, sleep is not a remission from their ills, but often where the trouble really starts. He tells Peter Blackburn about the things that go bump in the night in his study of sleep disorders

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Banned from getting better: loss of funding in mental health

20 February 2020

Mentally ill patients are often treated in shabby, outdated facilities which are anything but therapeutic. Yet hospitals with money to invest in improving care are being prevented from doing so by the Government. Keith Cooper reports
In the nick of time – the increasing importance of portfolio careers

14 February 2020

There was a police officer, a soldier and a consultant... and they were all called Syed Masud. But doctors with such a mix of skills are not always given the chance to use them to best effect. Neil Hallows reports
Undermined and overlooked: SAS doctors respond to survey

14 February 2020

SAS doctors often feel bullied and sidelined, according to new GMC research. But changing attitudes and some enlightened employers give cause for hope. Tim Tonkin reports

Getting ready for ARM 2020

We are just over four months away from this year’s annual representative meeting taking place in Edinburgh between 21-25 June at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
Why is it hard to say ‘it’s not my job’?

Junior doctors spend a surprising proportion of their day hunting for equipment, portering patients or fixing the printer, at the expense of reviewing ill patients and gaining vital experience.
Working in the snot factory

I’m fed up of tolerating snot. We have it coughed, sneezed and gratuitously sprayed in our faces on a regular basis, and it’s not OK.

Fighting the tide

The rocketing demand on the NHS from homeless patients and the staff trying to break the cycle.
'People like us don't become doctors'

Overcoming the toughest social barriers to enter medicine, doctors and medical students tell us how they made it against the odds.
Are you paying to go to work?

We asked GPs and hospital doctors about pension tax charges and how they’re affecting work commitments. Here are the results.
Neil Armstrong's doctor

When Neil Armstrong's crew returned to earth, it was flight surgeon Bill Carpentier who looked after them. Fifty years on, he tells us about his weeks quarantined with the moonwalkers.
The hard road back

Alastair Watt was a respected and hard-working consultant. His death raises serious questions about how the NHS looks after its doctors when they return to work after illness.
A place of refuge?

Squalid and overcrowded – we visit one of the largest refugee camps in Greece.
Streets of Shame

Homelessness and the NHS - a tome of tragedies
Born of injustice

Separated at Birth junior doctor and mother of two is back in family court, under very different circumstances.
Separated at birth

The impact of poor access to mental healthcare during pregnancy.
An end to market madness?

Quietly, the NHS is being reorganised by health leaders but the pace of change is being forced by frontline services buckling under pressure of increased demand and diminishing resources.
When a doctor calls for help

Dr Meng Aw-Yong explores the impact of a GMC investigation and where doctors can turn for support.
Care across boundaries

How volunteering in the UK and abroad benefits doctors and the countries that host them.
Enjoy your elective

Follow these medical students and their elective journeys in Malta, Australia, New Zealand, the Himalayan region of India, and at home in the UK.
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