The Care Quality Commission has identified fraudulent activity involving doctors’ identities, soaring numbers of prescriptions for cannabis based products, and prevention of future death reports ...

A doctor and her husband who made nearly £8000 selling personal protective equipment (PPE) stolen from NHS Scotland in the early stages of the covid pandemic have both been jailed for 10 months. At ...

Wraparound care for patients taking GLP-1 agonists must include assessment of nutritional status to identify the risk of malnutrition, writes Ellen Fallows Food insecurity is increasing, particularly ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reversed its ban on Juul Laboratories’ e-cigarette products and will allow them to be sold to help adult smokers stop smoking or switch to less dangerous ...

One fundamental question that Gillian Leng’s review had to answer was whether the roles of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) could continue in the NHS without any changes.1 ...

The US government says that its plan to cap the fees that researchers pay to publish open access articles in medical journals will be in operation from October—although key details, including the ...

Knowing who to approach and taking initiative can set new foundation year 1 (FY1) doctors up for success, Elisabeth Mahase hears Natasha Binnie, foundation year 2 doctor, says, “Firstly, ...

Those born between the mid-to-late 1990s and early 2010s seem to be drinking less alcohol than older generations. Why is this—and could it be a public health opportunity? Elisabeth Mahase reports The ...

Premature babies in the UK are to be offered protection against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) with a single injection of the long acting monoclonal antibody nirsevimab. Every year in the UK around ...

I fully agree with Mathew that continuity requires presence,1 but microteams deserve more credit and could be part of the multifactorial solution.2 Owing to changes in society and healthcare, the ...

How positive you feel depends on your perspective (doi:10.1136/bmj-2025-084613).3 The rapid introduction of physician associates and anaesthesia associates was, in an era of self-inflicted damage, ...

Gillian Leng led NICE for 20 years and now serves as president of the Royal Society of Medicine. Her landmark review into physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs and AAs) proposes a new direction ...