Responsibility for providing fit notes should be moved away from general practices to encourage more people back into work, a ...
A patient in his 30s, who had arrived from Guinea-Bissau nine months earlier, presented to the emergency department with ...
Most of the government’s newly built NHS neighbourhood health centres (NHCs) will be funded by private finance, a health minister has confirmed. Karin Smyth also said that around 40% of the centres to ...
An artificial intelligence is now allowed legally to participate in clinical decisions over prescription renewals. The approval, made in the US state of Utah, is a global first, the company behind the ...
Beardsell calls for a shift “from defensive practice to clinical courage.”1 It used to be that doctors were paid for their opinion—for balancing experience, probability, and uncertainty. With limited ...
Patients waiting in hospital corridors because of overcrowding have collapsed and faced treatment delays as staff couldn’t see them, the NHS’s safety watchdog has warned. The Health Services Safety ...
Obesity is a chronic relapsing condition, and treatment options need to reflect this reality, write Sam West, Dimitrios A Koutoukidis, and Susan A Jebb The use of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) ...
A £40.5m programme to train doctors from overseas at a Midlands NHS trust has been discontinued after an independent review raised a host of red flags. These included failures to ensure that doctors ...
Helen Issler was born in an ambulance on the way to the Military Hospital in Deolali, near Mumbai in India, delivered by her father who was a medical officer in the British Army. Her parents were ...
How do we resolve the great challenges to health and wellbeing? Welcome to a BMJ special issue of resolutions. Our aim is to begin each year with a range of short essays on one of these great ...
What you need to know ### BMJ Learning To obtain accredited continuous professional development points, subscribers to BMJ Learning can complete the full module at The module contains four additional ...
A woman in her 20s presented to the burns centre 28 days after sustaining an injury to the medial aspects of both her thighs. The patient reported one occasion of recreational use of nitrous oxide ...