This week the UK bears witness to an important milestone in the history of the NHS: the final report of the infected blood inquiry. The report details how tens of thousands of people across the UK were infected by the NHS with HIV, hepatitis, and other bloodborne infections from the 1970s to the 1990s. One starts to wonder how a system built to serve...

Routen and colleagues discuss the need for intersectional approaches in health equity research.1 We identify three additional areas that could help advance health disparities research, integrate findings across studies, and inform clinical relevance.First, using consistent terminology would be helpful. Governing and funding bodies have guidelines to...

This week the UK bears witness to an important milestone in the history of the NHS: the final report of the infected blood inquiry. The report details how tens of thousands of people across the UK were infected by the NHS with HIV, hepatitis, and other bloodborne infections from the 1970s to the 1990s. One starts to wonder how a system built to serve...

Routen and colleagues discuss the need for intersectional approaches in health equity research.1 We identify three additional areas that could help advance health disparities research, integrate findings across studies, and inform clinical relevance.First, using consistent terminology would be helpful. Governing and funding bodies have guidelines to...

A former naval surgeon who operated on a boy’s penis without consent while performing hernia surgery at an NHS hospital has been suspended from the UK medical register for six months.Anthony Lambert, a consultant general surgeon, acted to free preputial adhesions on a 12 year old’s penis while the boy was under general anaesthetic for an umbilical hernia...

A former naval surgeon who operated on a boy’s penis without consent while performing hernia surgery at an NHS hospital has been suspended from the UK medical register for six months.Anthony Lambert, a consultant general surgeon, acted to free preputial adhesions on a 12 year old’s penis while the boy was under general anaesthetic for an umbilical hernia...