Doctors have expressed serious concern at increases in homelessness in the UK and the consequent harm to health, urging governments to fund better access to healthcare for homeless people.The BMA’s...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 19:26
The UK government must implement standards to prevent social media from sharing content that promotes self harm or suicide as a way of dealing with mental health problems, doctors have said.Delegates...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 18:56
Rising knife crime demands a public health response, and healthcare professionals have a role in reducing violence among young people, BMA representatives have affirmed.At the association’s annual...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 18:52
We have insufficient resources to give every patient the treatments that they and their surgeons might wish for. The problem is not unique to ophthalmology.1National Institute for Health and Care...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 14:01
I recently interviewed two retired doctors, Michael and Bernadette Modell, both in their 80s, who taught me when I was a medical student.I remember their lectures vividly, as well as my attachment at...
Tue Jun 25, 2019 14:15
Any emergency hospital admission of frail, elderly patients means a decision about what to do if their heart stops beating. Should we attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)? The medical answer...
Tue Jun 25, 2019 14:11
I look forward to The BMJ’s special issue on the theme of ethnic minority staff and patients,1 in particular further information about complaints against NHS staff, which can be arbitrary and...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 18:31
The digital GP provider Push Doctor has been rated as “good” by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in a significant turnaround for the service, which was previously the subject of safety concerns from...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 18:26
My recent column on the paucity of doctors as NHS hospital chief executives brought an interesting postbag, sparking more reflection on my part.1Clinically active doctors can often assume management,...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 18:11
Doctors have called on the BMA to obtain legal guidance for doctors on whether they can refuse to work when system failures, such as understaffing or IT breakdowns, mean that patient safety cannot be...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 17:56
A third hospital unit in Sydney has been banned from training junior doctors amid concerns over alleged bullying among senior staff.St George Hospital’s ICU had its accreditation to train junior...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 17:21
The UK government website gives this overview of the duty of equality across public services, including the NHS: “the public sector equality duty requires public bodies to have due regard to the need...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 16:06
Rebecca Gomperts, a Dutch physician practising in Austria, says that she has heard from thousands of pregnant women in the United States in recent months who want abortions but cannot get them. In...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 16:01
The BMA must lobby NHS England and the government to investigate and compensate doctors who have become ill or have been unable to retire as a result of Capita’s pension “failings,” representatives...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 15:56
Since its foundation, the NHS has been committed to providing treatment according to clinical need. The distinction between want and need is important—there may be treatments that patients want but...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 15:21
The BMA has rejected a claim by the government’s spending watchdog that GPs regard paying for their premises “as optional,” after an inquiry found that almost £700m (€782m; $890m) owed to NHS...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 08:30
Improvements in air quality cut the number of deaths attributable to pollution in the UK sharply between 1970 and 2010, a new analysis has shown.While in 1970 small particles less than 2.5 µm in...
Wed Jun 26, 2019 03:10
bmj;365/jun25_20/l4405/FAF1faReutersFamily members and healthcare workers gather for the funeral of a baby killed by Ebola in Beni, a town in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the...
Tue Jun 25, 2019 19:56
A poll of senior NHS employees including over 1800 consultants has found that one in five has avoided promotion at work because of the impact of pension tax charges, and more than four in 10 have...
Tue Jun 25, 2019 17:21
The BMA has voted to poll its members to ascertain their views on whether the association should adopt a neutral position on assisted dying rather than one against.After a lively debate,...
Tue Jun 25, 2019 16:16
In this article by von Ehrenstein and colleagues (BMJ 2019;364, doi:10.1136/bmj.l962, published 20 March and in the 23 March print issue), an oversight by coauthor Beate Ritz led to the omission of a...
Tue Jun 25, 2019 15:06
In this article by Riley and colleagues (BMJ 2016;353, doi:10.1136/bmj.i3140, published 22 June 2016 and in the 25 June 2016 print issue), a reader pointed a mistake in the labelling of figures 3 and...
Tue Jun 25, 2019 15:05
The fact that disproportionate numbers of black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) doctors are referred to the General Medical Council for fitness to practise concerns may be because of poor...
Tue Jun 25, 2019 11:45
The World Health Organization is discarding two opioid guidelines after a report by two members of the US Congress alleged that they were tainted by opioid manufacturers.The bipartisan report accused...
Mon Jun 24, 2019 13:31
Make no mistake: loneliness is a killer.12 In our systematic review, depression was the most strongly evidenced consequence for mental health, but many other disorders could contribute to the higher...
Mon Jun 24, 2019 17:36
This Feature (BMJ 2019;365:l2281, doi:10.1136/bmj.l2281) has an error in the fifth paragraph of the section titled “Risks of discrimination.” The hospital trust in which 541 women were charged for...
Mon Jun 24, 2019 16:26
The NHS still needs to work out how to explain service closures to patients, the leader of a local health system has said.Pat Flaherty, sustainability and transformation partnership lead for...
Mon Jun 24, 2019 16:20
Nearly three years ago, Rimmer reported that senior doctors needed to do more to boost the morale of junior doctors.1I am nearing the end of my first year working in medicine, and there is one...
Mon Jun 24, 2019 16:05
The BMA will co-host its first conference on gender bias with the Medical Women’s Federation this November, the association’s chair of council, Chaand Nagpaul, has announced.Speaking at the BMA’s...
Mon Jun 24, 2019 14:51
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