For many doctors, it's painful to see the huge amount of waste and environmentally damaging activity in the health service. Seren Boyd speaks to some of those determined to make the NHS more sustainable
For GP, life peer and former BMA president David Pitt, health and politics were inextricably linked. As part of Black History Month, Tim Tonkin looks back at the legacy of a physician and political and civil rights activist who never stopped fighting for his principles or patients
Go to a conflict zone and you'll find a lot more than combat trauma to deal with. Babies continue to be born, often in appalling circumstances. Pippa Letchworth tells Jennifer Trueland how she trains doctors in obstetrics in some of the most challenging places on earth
Duncan Campbell was the anaesthetist who worked with Patrick Steptoe, the pioneer of IVF. Dr Campbell's innovation – in the face of opposition – made safe laparoscopic surgery possible. Now in his 90s, he tells his story
The attack of healthcare workers and institutions in war zones remains the scourge of the international community while the BMA continues to push for medical neutrality to be respected. By Tim Tonkin
While her vehicle could become stuck in the mud, the rest of Kerry Greenan's volunteering experience in Africa sounds intensely liberating, seeing a wide range of medicine, which has prepared her well for life back in the UK. Tim Tonkin reports
Health service catering has tended to offer little in the way of either 'health' or 'service', but it's not all pie, chips and pop, as Ben Ireland discovered at a hospital determined to do better
Recommendations in Leng Review, which BMA calls ‘inadequate response’ to ‘patient safety scandal’
