Admissions from care homes are a symptom of bad policy leadership
Hospital admissions from care homes1 are often due to a clinician being unable or unavailable…
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Clare Gerada: My last Christmas on call
For nearly 40 years I’ve been part of an on-call rota, but this Christmas will…
Bernard J Tyson: chief executive of US non-profit healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente
bmj;367/nov26_5/l6672/FAF1faCredit: Kaiser PermanenteBernard J Tyson had a leading role in making Kaiser Permanente the largest…
RCGP calls on GMC to introduce mandatory and public declaration of interests register
The Royal College of General Practitioners will call on the General Medical Council to ensure…
The heart sink doctor
Every Friday morning our department has an academic meeting, lasting an hour. They are a…
Investigating cortisol excess or deficiency: a practical approach
What you need to knowRandom, untimed cortisol levels are of limited clinical valueCortisol measured at…
False assumptions in NICE guidance on lipid modification
A key message from Byrne and colleagues’ article on statins for the primary prevention of…
Sexism at the BMA: grassroots GPs call for “action not words” by next May
Local GP leaders have demanded that the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee publish a formal action…
Air pollution report shows health impact
Living near a busy road can stunt lung growth in children by as much as…
GP who downplayed symptoms of boy who died from Addison’s disease is suspended
A GP who gave wrongly dated and misleading medical notes to police inquiring into the…
Disgraced tracheal transplant surgeon is handed 16 month prison sentence in Italy
Disgraced surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who faked research relating to dangerous and largely discredited tracheal transplants,…
Why I . . . garden
In addition to a busy NHS job and several national commitments, Peter Brennan has recently…
LMC conference: NHS England must apologise for “offensive report” on fraud in general practice
The BMA’s General Practitioners Committee (GPC) must raise a formal complaint with NHS England over…
Hong Kong protests: police response is public health crisis, doctors say
Healthcare workers in Hong Kong have condemned the Hong Kong Police Force for failing to…
End out-of-area GP registration, say protesters
GPs and patients took to the streets of Tower Hamlets in east London to protest…
Bernard Fisher: US surgeon who pioneered a scientific approach for breast cancer treatment
bmj;367/nov25_1/l6657/FAF1faCredit: Archives of Bernard Fisher The US surgeon Bernard Fisher has died at the age…
Helen Salisbury: Why I resist giving up home visits
GPs no longer have time to visit patients in their own homes, so the requirement…
GPs call for home visits to be removed from contract
GP leaders in England have called for an end to their contractual responsibility to carry…
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GPs call for BMA to take “urgent action” on drug shortages
GPs have demanded that the BMA General Practitioners Committee (GPC) England take “urgent action” to…
US charity pays $4m to settle allegations it paid patients kickbacks from drug makers
The Assistance Fund (TAF), a charity based in Orlando, Florida, will pay $4m (£3.1m; $3.6m)…
Studies on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease should stratify by disease severity
In a large, population based cohort study, Alexander and colleagues report that a diagnosis of…
Maternity care failings in Shropshire stretch back four decades
What is this leaked report?Midwife Donna Ockenden is leading an independent review of maternity care,…
Johnson & Johnson loses class action over vaginal mesh in Australia
More than 1350 women have won a seven year class action in Australia against the…
Nicholas Rutter
bmj;367/nov22_3/l6651/FAF1faNicholas Rutter (“Nick”) was brought up in East Anglia and attended Trinity College, Cambridge, before…
Jonathan Gordon Hooker
bmj;367/nov22_2/l6650/FAF1faJonathan Gordon Hooker enjoyed senior house officer posts in medicine, rheumatology, and paediatrics in an…
Case settled of Irish student who developed narcolepsy after swine flu vaccine
A legal claim against vaccine maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the Irish state by a student…
Seven days in medicine: 13-19 Nov 2019
AlcoholNew laws limit advertising in IrelandLegislation to reduce children’s exposure to advertisements featuring alcohol products…
A pain in the neck
A 39 year old woman presented with a one week history of progressive swelling and…
Association between gifts from pharmaceutical companies to French general practitioners and their drug prescribing patterns in 2016: retrospective study using the French Transparency in Healthcare and National Health Data System databases
In the discussion section of this article by Goupil and colleagues (BMJ 2019;367:l6015, doi:10.1136/bmj.l6015, published…
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Changing hearts and minds
The UK is no longer measles free, and other vaccine preventable childhood illnesses are on…
Infectious necrotising gastritis
This abdominal computed tomography scan (fig 1) shows gastric dilatation (blue arrow) in a 27…
The marvellous history of medicine
bmj;367/nov21_4/l6603/FAF1faAs you walk into Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries, a new exhibition at the Science Museum,…
Vaccination, gout, . . . and other stories
Gout flares after vaccinationSafety data from trials of a recombinant herpes zoster vaccine flagged up…
Why researchers should share their analytic code
JAMA recently retracted and replaced an important clinical trial report from 2018 after a serious…
New power versus old: to beat antivaccination campaigners we need to learn from them—an essay by Kathryn Perera, Henry Timms, and Jeremy Heimans
Shanelle Cartwright is a 20 year old mother of two young children and a social…
Shared decision making in cancer care requires better communication and understanding of pathology reports
Venhuizen emphasises the importance of patients being involved in management decisions.1 But this requires the…
Bernhoven approach is more than just patient centred care and shared decision making
I enjoyed Venhuizen’s article about Bernhoven Hospital’s patient centred approach but have two criticisms.1First, saying…
John Broomhall
bmj;367/nov20_7/l6619/FAF1faJohn Broomhall was born in Finchley, London, the eldest of three children. He aspired to…
Shashi Prabha Gupta
bmj;367/nov20_6/l6511/FAF1faShashi Prabha Gupta moved to the UK in 1963, initially working in all four corners…
Henry Bernard Pollock
bmj;367/nov20_5/l6514/FAF1faHenry Bernard Pollock was born in London. As a child he moved to Amsterdam with…
Ruth Pollock
bmj;367/nov20_4/l6516/FAF1faRuth Lewty was born in Lancaster, the eldest of three sisters. She had a rural…
Sepsis: digital monitoring improves outcomes by alerting clinicians to deteriorating patients, study finds
A digital monitoring system for sepsis that alerts clinicians to signs of deterioration helped to…
Health professionals should promote environmentally sustainable lifestyles
McErlean makes the excellent point that health professionals, by maintaining physically active lifestyles, can set…
Doctors criticise Indian government’s advice to delay oxytocin at childbirth
Doctors and maternal health experts have questioned the scientific rationale and ethics of an Indian…
What a Johnson or Corbyn government might mean for the NHS
The 2019 general election will be the UK’s third in four years, making rather a…
The Daily Mail’s U turn on MMR vaccination
Although once overwhelmingly opposed to the combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, last month the…
Helen Salisbury: A chronic problem with language
When I was instructed some years ago that the term “chronic disease” had been replaced…
Has Labour lost its traditional lead on the NHS?
This election may be styled as being about “getting Brexit done,” an issue that continues…
Platelet rich plasma injection for acute Achilles tendon rupture: PATH-2 randomised, placebo controlled, superiority trial
AbstractObjectiveTo determine whether an injection of platelet rich plasma improves outcomes after acute Achilles tendon…