Tackling high blood pressure in Vietnam - in pictures
World Hypertension Day is on 17 May. Global health physician-photographer Alexander Kumar shares images featuring an innovative approach to help fight high blood pressure in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
April 2018
Rise in assaults on staff reveals intolerable pressure on NHS
Health workers around the globe are at a high risk of physical violence - the UK government must face up to the problem
January 2018
Tackling leprosy in the Philippines - in pictures
Global health physician and photographer Alexander Kumar shares images from the Philippines where a new mobile phone-based tool is being used for earlier disease detection
August 2017
What can the NHS learn from New Zealand?
Experiences from the Canterbury region offer key lessons on how accountable care should work – and how it should not
May 2017
Hypertension in Ulaanbaatar – in pictures
Partnerships in practice
The life-changing flying eye hospital treating blindness across the globe
February 2017
Health in cities
How can health services keep pace with the rapid growth of cities?
Urbanisation is linked to a range of health issues; improving the health of people in cities is becoming a central concern of government and international institutions
November 2016
Leprosy – a disease of the past? – In pictures
Expedition medicine: save lives ... and go places
July 2016
NHS bursary reforms are just one part of a larger policy challenge
The health service needs to train more of its own nurses, but switching students from bursaries to loans must be part of a wider programme
June 2016
Medicines and treatments
One doctor's mission to understand Zika virus in Brazil – in pictures
Dr Alex Kumar toured rural and remote clinics, hospitals and towns to coordinate clinical research with patients alongside a local healthcare team
In Norway centralised healthcare works. Should the NHS follow suit?
Ole Tjomsland and Stein Bruland
Data and evidence proves that concentrating care in fewer hospitals provides the best patient outcomes, Norwegian health experts argue
Health in cities
Is city living bad for your health?
Many cities struggle to offer their growing populations a healthy environment – but urban living doesn’t necessarily mean a poor quality of life
May 2016
Blood, sweat and tears
After a patient punched me, I realised force has no role in mental health care
Dr Manaan Kar Ray
Being assaulted made me dwell on how services too often rely on coercion – which is incompatible with recovery
March 2016
NHS mistakes cost lives. Here are four ways to improve patient safety
Ara Darzi
The five principles behind the world’s most efficient health systems
February 2016
Views from the NHS frontline
Neonatal nursing is an amazing job, but it takes an emotional toll
Ann Coyle
This is the NHS
The secret overseas doctor's diary: 'I had two options, both of them bad'
December 2015
Blood, sweat and tears
The woman who came to hospital and gave birth in a room alone
Health in cities
Casinos, leaf picking and a new god: supporting older people in Japan
