Some NHS trusts have been slow to act on calls to assess the increased risks associated with covid-19. Gareth Iacobucci finds out why Some NHS trusts in England are yet to complete covid-19 risk assessments for their staff from ethnic minority groups more than two months after the NHS first told them to do so, an investigation by The BMJ has found. On 29 April NHS England’s chief executive,…
Doctor activists are in the news. Sarah Benn, a former GP from Birmingham, has had her medical licence suspended for five months after being arrested…
The success of NHS Practitioner Health shows that the unique demands of working in healthcare merit a tailored response, says Zaid Al-Najjar “If you build…
A common complaint about the NHS is that it’s not so much a health service as an illness service and that we’d be a healthier,…
The medical community, human rights groups, and agencies including the UN and the Council of Europe have condemned the UK for passing the Rwanda deportation…
New definitions of oral health provide an opportunity to change mindsets and promote innovation to tackle high levels of unmet needs, but this will only…
A former GP and climate activist who spent 32 days in prison for breaching an injunction banning protests outside an oil terminal against the production…
As a way to mark our 10 year anniversary since launching our patient and public partnership strategy (https://www.bmj.com/campaign/patient-partnership) we are going to publish a patient…
### What you need to know Double vision, or diplopia, may be the first sign of sight or life threatening pathology. A thorough, accurate first…
Argentina’s healthcare system is under threat from the dengue crisis and its president’s systematic dismantling of science. Martín de Ambrosio reports The worst dengue outbreak…
An evaluation of the NHS digital weight management programme shows that people who completed it lost 3.9 kg over 12 weeks. When everyone who started…
