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Mike Farrar is bringing decades of experience to tackling waiting times and health inequalities in the worst-performing part of the health service. In the first of three features about efforts to improve care in Northern Ireland, he tells Jennifer Trueland why he's up for the challenge

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Mike Farrar is bringing decades of experience to tackling waiting times and health inequalities in the worst-performing part of the health service. In the first of three features about efforts to improve care in Northern Ireland, he tells Jennifer Trueland why he's up for the challenge

Jennifer Trueland 05.12.25

Government response to COVID-19 was ‘too little too late’, inquiry concludes

Report says 23,000 deaths could have been avoided with earlier lockdown

Ben Ireland 20.11.25

Up in smoke?

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

By Seren Boyd 13.11.25

A champion of equality

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

By Tim Tonkin 01.10.25

War's forgotten victims

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

By Jennifer Trueland 25.09.25

At the dawn of IVF

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

By Duncan Campbell 16.09.25

Caring under fire

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

By Tim Tonkin 19.08.25

Ready for anything

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

By Tim Tonkin 14.08.25
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