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The article presents obituaries of health care professionals including former general practitioner Geoffrey Richard Charles Campion, clinical pharmacologist Jane Margaret Blunt Gray and medical consultant Charles Basil Shaw Schofield.

The article presents an obituary for Dr. Dan Tunstall Pedoe who died from a heart attack in England on February 13, 2015.

The article reports on the establishment of the pressure group Doctors for the National Health Service (NHS) by general practitioners (GP) and consultants in England. Topics explored include the opposition of these GP to the possible marketisation of the NHS, the goal and activities of this pressure group according to its president, Peter Fisher, and the public meeting it held at the British House of Commons.

An obituary for British surgeon commander William Herbert Baxter Ellis is presented.

The article presents an obituary for Samuel Laird Galbraith, a consultant neurosurgeon and the world's longest surviving lung transplant patient.

The article reports on the move by England's National Audit Office (NAO) as of early November 2013 to urge health officials to resolve the staffing shortfalls in National Health Service (NHS) emergency departments in order to tackle the increasing numbers of admissions. The NAO also claimed that the Department of Health should encourage more doctors to work in accident and emergency, among others. The opinion of NAO head, Amyas Morse, on the developments is also cited.

The article reports on the efforts being done by a public health movement in India to challenge the traditional biomedical model of healthcare in 2011.

Discusses the effectiveness of flying in teams of surgeons to Great Britain from abroad to help reduce National Health Service waiting lists. Allegations that English surgeons are deliberately sabotaging government plans in order to retain control over lucrative private practice; Unsuccessful episodes in which the policy was employed.