Today, I am pleased to publish my Annual Report for 2025–26. I wanted to use this opportunity to reflect on the progress we have made but also the challenges that remain. As I look back, one theme stands out above all others: when we listen to patients, we make healthcare safer. Over the past […]
People with sensory impairment face challenges and no more so then when it comes to managing health conditions with devices that are not designed for them and medicines they have difficulty using. I have been contacted by many patients with vision or hearing loss who experience…
It is one year since I published the Hughes Report on the options for redress for those harmed by pelvic mesh and valproate. When I launched the report in Parliament on 7th February 2024, I never imagined that a year later I would…
At the heart of the National Joint Registry is an organisation that looks after the best interest of patients undergoing joint surgery. It does this by recording, monitoring, analysing, and reporting on the…
All healthcare work sometimes includes making truly difficult decisions, decisions that can have serious consequences for patients and their families, now, or in the future. This stretches from wards to Boards and into every part of the healthcare system. You only need…
Antidepressant prescribing is at record levels in England, with around one in five adults receiving these medicines for a range of mental health conditions and chronic pain. Prescriptions have…