J. Meirion Thomas

How far would you go to get your sick child a kidney transplant?

20 May 2023 9:00 am

The Nigerian politician, the Lagos street trader and the foiled kidney transplant plot

Is it time to defund the humanities?

4 September 2022 7:00 pm

Much of the cost of running our universities and other centres of higher education is borne by government, meaning the…

It’s time to lift the medical student cap

20 August 2022 6:00 pm

Gaining a place in medical school has always been a lottery, made even more difficult for aspiring doctors this year.…

Striking GPs need a reality check

29 June 2022 10:17 pm

GPs have voted to strike if some contract changes, including forcing practices to open on Saturdays, are not withdrawn. The doctor proposing…

Medical emergency: general practice is broken

4 June 2022 9:00 am

General practice is broken

Is your doctor faking it?

29 June 2019 9:00 am

Last October, Phil Coleman, a journalist on the Carlisle-based News & Star, went to cover the trial of Zholia Alemi,…

When will Britain stop poaching the world’s medics and train our own instead?

23 March 2019 9:00 am

For years, Britain has been failing to train enough doctors and has been importing them instead. This has been a…

Losing patients

28 January 2017 9:00 am

For weeks now, we have been reading about a crisis in A&E — a symptom, we’re told, of a funding…