Stephen Bradley and colleagues argue that plans to involve community pharmacies in diagnosing cancer are unlikely to transform cancer detection in primary care Cancer is diagnosed at more advanced ...

Deficiencies in workforce planning have meant a mismatch between trainee numbers and posts, Emma Wilkinson reports The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan , published with much fanfare in June 2023,1 set out ...

Benjamin Gilbert This giant installation forms part of a joyful exploration of the body, drawing on the experiences of artist Jason Wilsher-Mills, who as a child ...

A coroner has told the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to take action to “prevent future deaths” relating to its guidance on preventing infective endocarditis after ...

NHS England (NHSE) published its long awaited and serially delayed long term workforce plan for the NHS.1 In the 10 months since then we’ve seen pay disputes, difficult contract negotiations, strike ...

Concerns have been raised over the risk assessment carried out for the NHS long term workforce plan, with a senior doctor accusing NHS England of not putting enough consideration into the impact the ...

Surgeons have expressed alarm after learning of a surgical care practitioner (SCP) performing laparoscopic cholecystectomies at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust. The Royal College of Surgeons of England ...

Losing a colleague to suicide can have a huge impact on a team. There are measures that can be put in place to support them, Abi Rimmer hears Gail Kinman, professor of occupational health psychology, ...

After the confusion of 2020, WHO has finally changed its definition of how diseases can spread through the air. But what is the new definition—and what needs to happen next? Mun-Keat Looi reports In ...

2 Laboratory of Research and Extension in Epidemiology (Lapex-Epi), Institute of Geography, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil 3 Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan ...

There is only limited evidence that the current approach to continuous observation of patients at risk of harming themselves when on hospital wards is effective, an investigation has concluded.1 The ...

Every article published since the The BMJ’s first issue in 1840 is now available online. You can browse different print issues. In June 2008 The BMJ became a fully online first journal, with all ...