In an exclusive BMJ interview the shadow health secretary outlines how he will tackle the NHS workforce crisis if given the chance, his take on junior doctors’ industrial action, and how he could ...

The UK government is trying to highlight the importance of health checks for men and improving access as part of wider work to improve men’s health, the health minister Maria Caulfield has told MPs.

Carrie S, O’Hara J, Fouweather T, et al. Clinical effectiveness of septoplasty versus medical management for nasal airways obstruction: multicentre, open label, randomised controlled trial. BMJ ...

Readers of The BMJ who are registered clinicians working in the UK will be well aware of the professional duty of candour and transparency over incidents that put patients at risk or harm them. It was ...

Responses to FOI requests show a lack of consistency in how regulators are monitoring levels of transparency when things go wrong. David Oliver reports Professional medical regulators lack the ...

Staffing shortages play a key role in unsafe maternity care, an analysis of 92 cases by the Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations (MNSI) programme has found.1 The 92 pregnant women studied had ...

A decision by the drug manufacturer Moderna to drop plans to set up its first mRNA vaccine manufacturing plant outside the United States in Nairobi, Kenya, should be seen as a wake-up call to ...

Israel’s military bombardment and siege of Gaza, we are witnessing the onset of a man made and entirely preventable famine, say Sameer Sah and Khaled Dawas In December 2023, we led Medical Aid for ...

One of my favourite poems is “Hope” is the Thing with Feathers , by Emily Dickinson. I discovered it at age 16, when medical school was still a distant dream and my biggest aim was to get through GCSE ...

A consultant breast surgeon who took a job with an NHS trust without notifying it that he was under investigation by the General Medical Council for clinical failings, then went on to commit a litany ...

I’ll always be grateful to the doctor who delivered my first baby: a kind and skilled obstetric registrar able to analyse the situation and undertake a ventouse extraction. I knew that yoga, breathing ...

NHS England has announced a pilot scheme to test “more flexible staffing models” in general practice. The move has been criticised by the BMA, which said what was needed was better funding, not new ...