Dr Now: the smartphone app that puts you in touch with a GP – for a fee

New rash of apps exploit gaps in overstretched NHS by offering subscribers virtual consultation with a GP

‘I was cross that my child had to beg the prime minister for a drug’

Sue Barnley’s son has a rare fatal disease. Her family is having an increasingly bitter fight to get funding for his treatment

I protect the public from infectious diseases – whether from sneezing or sex

The work I’m doing in public health only scratches the surface. If only we had more time and resources

Is listening to Jeremy Hunt the real weekend danger in the NHS?

The #ImInWorkJeremy hashtag went viral after the health secretary called for a ‘seven-day’ NHS

Get a tip from a barmaid: pub staff could be used to spread public health message

Royal Society for Public Health report suggests using cleaners, hairdressers and postal workers and venues such as pubs to help reach people doctors do not see

Don’t call believers in homeopathy idiots – it will push them further from science

Those attacking Jeremy Corbyn for supporting the NHS provision of homeopathy are helping to entrench the perceived elitism of mainstream medicine

£1 coin for your hospital trolley? The NHS’s supermarket-style makeover – cartoon

The NHS must learn from Asda to ensure staff take more ‘pride and joy’ in their work, says a health minister. So should hospitals charge £1 for a trolley?

FGM: it’s cutting season and NHS staff must be alert to the dangers

There is a real need for extra vigilance in healthcare at this time of year. I urge all health professionals with suspicions about the safety of young girls to speak up

Why it isn’t just NHS staff who need to learn to say sorry – cartoon

GP and graphic novelist Ian Williams on the new guidance that says doctors, nurses and midwives must offer prompt apologies for medical blunders

Stark rise in eating disorders blamed on overexposure to celebrities’ bodies

Dr Colin Michie, a leading paediatrician, speaks out as figures show soaring numbers of young people are being admitted to hospital