NHS England has said it will work with employers to improve rotational training by, among other actions, releasing rota schedules earlier, reducing payroll errors, and reviewing how parking spaces are ...

Oliver and Vaughan outline their concerns about the General Medical Council’s vision for reforming education and training.1 They focused on the areas of change we set out, but ignored the principles ...

Hundreds of bodies “buried deep in the ground and covered with waste” have been recovered at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the UN has reported.1 “Among the ...

Doctors in the first year of foundation training who have yet to be allocated to the jobs they are expected to start on 7 August have said they are “distressed, angry, and fed up.”1 The BMA has said ...

Removing the “reasonable punishment” defence and prohibiting corporal punishment of children can help to reduce family violence, says Andrew Rowland In England and Northern Ireland, we have a key ...

Why do politicians have such a low opinion of British people’s compassion to think this policy is a vote winner, asks Martin McKee Late on 22 April 2024 the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) ...

A decade ago the jurisdiction of England and Wales was on the brink of introducing a policy that would have led to substantial reductions in the harms done by alcohol (doi:10.1136/bmj.f7646).1 Instead ...

An anaesthesiologist in Dallas, Texas, could face a prison sentence of 190 years after he was convicted of injecting a deadly cocktail of drugs into intravenous (IV) saline bags, leading to cardiac ...

Ann Robinson reviews the latest research Pregnancy and childbirth can be worrying times, and the news that adverse pregnancy outcomes are associated with an increased risk of dying younger will ramp ...

A 10 year old boy presented to the emergency department with a one day history of left testicular pain and swelling. He had no history of scrotal trauma, fever, nausea, abdominal pain, or urinary ...

The long term harms of alcohol are being minimised in industry funded education, find Madlen Davies and Hristio Boytchev Universities and schools are being urged to join a growing movement in Ireland ...

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 for taking part in peaceful protests by Just Stop ...