I’m in favour of assisted dying, and I was pleased to see the House of Commons in the UK have a sober, rational, respectful ...

Four months after GPs in England voted in favour of taking collective action over contractual terms and funding,1 local ...

Medical defence experts have welcomed the government’s decision to increase the personal injury discount rate (PIDR) in ...

The NHS in Scotland must consider reducing the range and level of services it offers to free up money for high priority care, ...

Workforce sustainability and expansion cannot be achieved without greater capacity to train staff, argue Colin Macdougall and ...

One effect of last week’s parliamentary debate and vote to change the law on assisted dying is that more people are talking about death, which isn’t a common or comfortable topic of conversation here ...

The former chief executive of the Countess of Cheshire Hospital has described as “outrageous” a suggestion that he sought to ...

It is two years since I, along with my co-author Martin Forde KC, published our review into the General Medical Council’s (GMC) handling of the case of a GP who was suspended over a claim she had been ...

A BMJ Commission will redefine the role of academia in healthcare Academic medicine remains under scrutiny. Despite various ...

What you need to know Prostate cancer is usually diagnosed using image guided needle biopsy. Approximately 70 000 such biopsies are performed annually in the UK,1 but these numbers have fallen since ...

President elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Jay Bhattacharya, who opposed lockdowns during the covid-19 pandemic, to head the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Like other Trump nominations ...

The BMJ will offer £50 for reviews by patients and the public From January 2025 patients and members of the public who ...