David Oliver: Allow nurses to use their professional judgment
In January the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) suspended a nurse’s registration for 12 months…
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David Oliver: Allow nurses to use their professional judgment
In January the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) suspended a nurse’s registration for 12 months…
Using a clinical process map to identify prescribing cascades in your patient
What you need to knowPrescribing cascades are a type of problematic polypharmacy that occur when…
Using a clinical process map to identify prescribing cascades in your patient
What you need to knowPrescribing cascades are a type of problematic polypharmacy that occur when…
Public health within local government, six years on
When responsibility for public health in England moved from the NHS to local government in…
Public health within local government, six years on
When responsibility for public health in England moved from the NHS to local government in…
Coronavirus covid-19 has killed more people than SARS and MERS combined, despite lower case fatality rate
The novel coronavirus that has so far spread from China to 26 countries around the…
NHS trusts are given new powers to bar racist patients
From April NHS services in England will be able to bar non-emergency patients or visitors…
US government sues Yale’s teaching hospital for age discrimination in testing older doctors
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing Yale New Haven Hospital over its…
Royal College of Pathologists: president elect is barred after misconduct allegations are upheld
The Royal College of Pathologists has barred its president elect, Peter Furness, from taking office…
Measuring multimorbidity beyond counting diseases: systematic review of community and population studies and guide to index choice
AbstractObjectivesTo identify and summarise existing indices for measuring multimorbidity beyond disease counts, to establish which…
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UK deal over inclisiran
The UK government recently announced an “innovative and ground-breaking collaboration” with the drug company Novartis…
Matt Morgan: When nothing is the right thing to say
I slept dreadfully that night. I fought with my pillow and perched on the narrow…
Sixty seconds on . . . the war on sugar
Is this like the war on drugs?It’s quite different, not least because this war might…
Addiction psychiatry could be wiped out in a decade without urgent government funding, college warns
Falling trainee numbers mean that addiction psychiatry could be wiped out in the next 10…
Paediatrician left suicide note suggesting he secretly left patients unvaccinated
A popular Chicago paediatrician who took his own life left a note suggesting that he…
BMJ Awards: finalists announced for 12th annual event
The race to recognise the most innovative and inspirational teams working in UK healthcare is…
Why I . . . set up a hockey team
Claire Hope, a paediatric registrar at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, feels that time for hobbies…
The path to a smoke-free England by 2030
Smoking is on course to kill around one billion people in the 21st century1 and…
Developing your career as a haematologist
Haematology is a flexible specialty that offers the opportunity to develop special interests in a…
Prescription for loneliness: five minutes with . . . Helen Stokes-Lampard
“Five years from now, every physician in the NHS will know what social prescribing is…
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WHO’s path to elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis
In their recent article in The BMJ (“Is elimination of vertical transmission of HIV in…
Clifton Paget Lowther
bmj;368/feb14_10/m586/FAF1faClifton Paget Lowther (“Tony”) was born in Glasgow and studied medicine at Glasgow University. After…
Ronald William Macandrew
bmj;368/feb14_9/m585/FAF1faRonald William Macandrew (“Ronnie”) was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and then did two years…
Ian James Jones
bmj;368/feb14_8/m588/FAF1faIan James Jones (“Jamie”) was sponsored though medical school by the army. After qualifying in…
Robert John Auld Nicol
bmj;368/feb14_7/m584/FAF1faRobert John Auld Nicol (“Bob”) trained at St Andrews, where qualifying well was so important…
Zuhair Raouf Al-Bahrani
bmj;368/feb14_6/m581/FAF1faZuhair Raouf Al-Bahrani became a professor of general surgery in Baghdad in 1977. He was…
Competing interests: GMC rejects calls to establish central register for doctors
The UK General Medical Council has rejected calls for it to set up a central…
Revamped emergency targets set to be phased in from this April
New NHS waiting time targets for emergency care will be phased in from this April…
Worcestershire acute trust must “make urgent improvements” in emergency departments, says regulator
The Care Quality Commission has used its urgent enforcement powers to protect patients after rating…
Improving transparency and performance of private hospitals
The recent report of the Paterson Inquiry identified multiple levels of dysfunction across England’s health…
Bringing an end to deadly “menstrual huts” is proving difficult in Nepal
Parbati Rawat was 21 years old when she died. “It was the 4th day of…
Management of acute ischemic stroke
ABSTRACTStroke is the leading cause of long term disability in developed countries and one of…
New primary care network contract could worsen health inequalities
We agree with the concerns voiced by general practitioners about the draft primary care network…
It’s time to act on racism in the NHS
Ethnic minority doctors and patients still face too many injustices in the NHS. The BMJ’s…
Helen Salisbury: Risk taking and decision making
My patient was coughing but is better now. Meanwhile, blood tests reveal that, although there…
Religious beliefs should be treated as any other personal choice
Sokol’s article, including its title (“Religion and spirituality in medicine: friend or foe?”), is unnecessarily…
Pregnancy and rates of Crohn’s . . . and other stories
Childbearing and Crohn’s diseaseAn analysis of data from a Norwegian patient register finds that pregnancy…
Pregnancy and rates of Crohn’s . . . and other stories
Childbearing and Crohn’s diseaseAn analysis of data from a Norwegian patient register finds that pregnancy…
Mind that mushroom medley
This is a picture (fig 1) of flagellate dermatitis. The patient was a 50 year…
Mind that mushroom medley
This is a picture (fig 1) of flagellate dermatitis. The patient was a 50 year…
New onset weakness in the face and arm
A 32 year old woman with a seven year history of discoid lupus erythematosus (a…
New onset weakness in the face and arm
A 32 year old woman with a seven year history of discoid lupus erythematosus (a…
Primary care network contract will exacerbate GP crisis
The specifications of the proposed direct enhanced service (DES) for primary care networks clearly show…
Primary care network contract will exacerbate GP crisis
The specifications of the proposed direct enhanced service (DES) for primary care networks clearly show…
Primary care networks: revised contract averts GP mutiny but staffing challenges remain
The new GP contract deal that secures full national funding for additional practice staff will…
Specialty training: ethnic minority doctors’ reduced chance of being appointed is “unacceptable”
Doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely than white doctors to be considered suitable…
Are medical schools turning a blind eye to racism?
Medical schools in the UK are ill prepared to deal with the racism and racial…
Seven days in medicine: 5-11 Feb 2020
CoronavirusUK declares “serious and imminent threat to public health”The UK government declared that the “incidence…
White doctors are still over-represented in top NHS jobs, study finds
The NHS favours white candidates when hiring for its most prestigious and highly paid positions,…