Broken beyond repair: self regulation of industry payments to clinicians and hospitals
On 5 July 2024 the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA), the drug industry’s…
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When I use a word . . . Love drugs
Fictional drugsFor hundreds of years writers of fiction have imagined drugs that could be used…
How should the new government rebuild the UK’s reputation in global health?
Historically, the UK has sought to position itself as a “leader in global health.”1 Indeed,…
Partha Kar: Streeting’s NHS should apply the Jurgen Klopp test
Looking at the NHS from outside, you’d think that it placed a strong emphasis on…
Johns Hopkins is latest US medical school to offer free tuition
Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore will now receive free tuition, and…
Helping women prepare for menopause
Over half the world’s population will experience menopause, and most will report symptoms, such as…
Satisfaction with GPs is high, but patients struggle to get appointments, survey shows
Trust and confidence in GPs remains high, but nearly a fifth of patients had a…
Ara Darzi is charged with uncovering “hard truths” of NHS performance
The new health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, has appointed Ara Darzi to lead…
People with sickle cell disease face damaging stigma
Sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder characterised by abnormal haemoglobin and sickle shaped red…
My honest note to hospital staff changed everything—combining healing for body and mind
Four years after my first breast cancer diagnosis, I received a call from the breast…
Online patient feedback offers important insights into the safety and quality of care
How useful is online patient feedback? Are patients really telling us anything we need to…
Regulation of digital marketing of ultra-processed food to adolescents is urgently needed
Fang and colleagues found that the consumption of ultra-processed food in adults is associated with…
Giving patients a seat at the table [tbc]
The NHS is one of the UK government’s top priorities. But where should the new…
Improve working conditions or risk losing senior doctors, new government is warned
Three top royal medical colleges, representing 60 000 doctors, have warned the new Labour government…
Large language models are not fit for clinical practice … and other research
LLMs not fit to practiseReviewing 360° assessment feedback from colleagues can be nerve wracking, particularly…
Realising the potential of the NHS Accessible Information Standard
The recent plea in The BMJ for greater awareness of deaf patients’ needs in the…
Patients need access to their medical records—now
Patients, particularly those with long term conditions, have a pivotal role in managing their own…
Looking for a helping hand
I used to enjoy drinking alcohol in social situations, and it was a regular part…
Housing for health . . . and other stories
Housing crisisA census in October last year estimated that, in England, around 4000 people were…
Management of a missing Mirena
EP: Ten days after I had an intrauterine system (IUS) inserted, I developed constant and…
More medical journals must work in partnership with patients and the public
When The BMJ launched its patient and public partnership strategy in 2014 it was the…
What the UK general election means for people who use health and care services (all of us!)
An often used expression in healthcare goes: “people might know what they want from a…
Wes Streeting “optimistic” after first pay talks with ȷunior doctors
Labour’s new health and social care secretary Wes Streeting is “optimistic” that a resolution can…
Mpox: South Africa reports 20 new cases and three deaths
South Africa has reported 20 new confirmed cases of mpox, including three deaths, in the…
John Stephenson: paediatric neurologist who found a major area of medical misdiagnosis
bmj;386/jul10_4/q1485/FAF1faIn 1978 the witty and erudite professor John Stephenson gave a name to unexplained syncope…
Damning review reveals nursing regulator’s “toxic” culture problems
The UK’s nursing regulator, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), has promised to tackle the…
Effectiveness of behavioural interventions with motivational interviewing on physical activity outcomes in adults: systematic review and meta-analysis
AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the effectiveness of behavioural interventions that include motivational interviewing on physical activity outcomes…
Flooding and climate denialism are harming millions of people in southern Brazil
Brazil has experienced several environmental disasters over the past decade, and in May it experienced…
Israeli doctors participated in torture, alleges released director of al-Shifa Hospital
The director of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, the paediatrician Mohammed Abu Salmiya, who was one…
Ukraine: Russian missiles destroy children’s hospital and kill dozens
A “deadly wave of missile strikes” launched by Russia on 8 July has destroyed a…
Labour pledges to increase funding for GPs
The new Labour government has promised to increase the proportion of NHS funds going to…
Abemaciclib: Pharma company lawsuit forces Dutch health agency to reassess cancer drug
The Dutch healthcare procurement agency has said it will reassess the breast cancer drug abemaciclib…
Does frailty need a new name?
The biomedical concept of frailty has been an important advance in how we approach the…
Reporting of surrogate endpoints in randomised controlled trial protocols (SPIRIT-Surrogate): extension checklist with explanation and elaboration
Randomised controlled trials (referred to as trials in this article) that are well designed, conducted,…
Helen Salisbury: Putting the care into healthcare
What do we want from a healthcare service? We certainly want health, and the service…
Reporting of surrogate endpoints in randomised controlled trial reports (CONSORT-Surrogate): extension checklist with explanation and elaboration
Evidence from well designed, conducted, and reported randomised controlled trials (referred to as trials in…
John Launer: Pressing the pause button—how my operation was cancelled
Recently, I found myself booked in for an operation that was cancelled at the last…
Susan Jane Harper Sprigge
bmj;386/jul09_4/q1474/FAF1faJane Harper was the daughter of a Canadian infantry officer and a military nurse, from…
Keith Alexander Sands
bmj;386/jul09_3/q1476/FAF1faBorn in London 1948, the same year the NHS was founded, Keith Alexander Sands was…
The crisis in academic medicine is not academic medicine in crisis
I am surprised that The BMJ has not been deluged with responses to Abbasi’s thoughtful…
Side hustles for doctors: specific guidance is needed
Rimmer explores the idea of doctors, especially those early in their career, having a “side…
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Industrial action: New health secretary opens talks with junior doctors
Labour’s new health secretary, Wes Streeting, has announced immediate talks with junior doctors in England…
Novo Nordisk failed to disclose {pound}7.8m in payments to doctors and others over three years
Drug company Novo Nordisk has been reprimanded by the UK pharmaceutical regulator after it admitted…
George Jamieson Ross McHardy
bmj;386/jul08_10/q1493/FAF1fa Ross McHardy (left), respiratory physician John Crofton (centre), and a colleague (right)Ross McHardy lost…
David Allden Lloyd
bmj;386/jul08_9/q1488/FAF1faDavid Allden Lloyd was born on 11 May 1940 in Natal, Union of South Africa,…
Maurice Guillochon
bmj;386/jul08_8/q1478/FAF1faMaurice Guillochon was born in St Helier, Jersey, where he lived with his parents and…
Ken Stein
bmj;386/jul08_7/q1492/FAF1faOur friend and colleague Ken Stein, who has died at the age of 60, was…
GP who used drugs at work and falsified prescriptions to obtain them is suspended for 12 months
An Essex GP who used drugs at work and obtained them using false prescriptions in…
Navigating breastfeeding through cancer treatment
When my daughter was around 3 months old, I had a sigmoidoscopy which revealed a…
Olympic Games: linking sports mega events to population physical activity
In May the World Health Assembly endorsed a resolution proposed by over 40 countries to…