Covid-19 still dominates the global consciousness and therefore The BMJ ’s coverage. This is unlikely soon to change, with the pandemic still growing exponentially.1 This year has already seen over 50% more deaths worldwide than the whole of 2020,2 and, while lockdown and vaccines have cut deaths and illness in the UK, the government’s advisers warn that plans for easing restrictions risk a…
UK doctors staged a protest outside the General Medical Council offices in London on 18 April, demanding the regulator take action on climate change. The…
Not quite. While overall smoking rates declined between 2013 and 2023, there appears to have been a rise in the proportion of middle class women…
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…
Campaigners representing victims of the UK infected blood scandal say that government plans for a compensation scheme “fall far short” of proposals by the former…
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The TRIPOD (Transparent Reporting of a multivariable prediction model for Individual Prognosis Or Diagnosis) statement was published in 2015 to provide the minimum reporting recommendations…
After years of underfunding, being undervalued, and issues around pay and working conditions, something finally seems to have changed for doctors. Whisper it softly, but…
Norway’s health minister, Ingvild Kjerkol, resigned on 12 April after allegations of plagiarism in her masters thesis. She has been under investigation by Nord University…
Chronically underfunded and with hundreds of thousands of roles vacant, social care is in crisis, piling pressure on frontline services and GPs. One solution comes…
