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The BMJ Today: Staffing levels, Alzheimer’s disease, blood pressure...
• “If staffing were a drug, doctors would be asked to prescribe it,” Margaret McCartney says in her latest column. So she thinks it is a pity that NHS England has told NICE to stop work on discovering...
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The BMJ Today: Handwashing, Medicare, and radiology shortages
A severe lack of specialist radiology training is failing children in the UK, an audit by the Royal College of Radiologists has found. The audit, undertaken in July this year, discovered that 35% of...
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The BMJ Today: Taxing sugar doesn’t have to be taxing
Increasing evidence suggests that taxes on soft drinks, sugar, and snacks can change diets and improve health, Sirpa Sarlio-Lähteenkorva argues in The BMJ today. Arguing in favour of a sugar tax,...
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The BMJ Today: Your summer reading medical thriller is here
The case of nutrition researcher Ranjit Kumar Chandra has attracted a news item and a blog. As Owen Dyer reports, Chandra has lost his bid to win damages from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for...
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The BMJ Today: Patient centred outcomes research
• A research paper looks at the association between warfarin treatment and longitudinal outcomes after ischaemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation in community practice, using a large...
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The BMJ Today: Organ donation, sharps injuries, patient involvement, and...
• Organ donation—Currently in the UK, 33% of the population are registered donors, and at the end of March 2015 there were 6904 people on the waiting list for a suitable donor, with kidney transplants...
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The BMJ Today: Chillies and mortality, informed consent, and healthcare for...
• Is chilli good for your health? Jun Lv and colleagues report a large cohort study assessing the associations between the regular consumption of spicy foods and total and cause specific mortality....
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The BMJ Today: An NHS in dire financial straits, sex workers, and changing...
• NHS needs urgent cash injection Barely a day seems to go by without yet another story or report spelling fresh financial doom for the NHS. Today it’s the turn of the Chartered Institute of Public...
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The BMJ Today: Food for thought, brain injury, and ovarian cancer
• Nutritional epidemiology As we learned this week that eating chillies could make us live longer, The BMJ’s acting head of research, Elizabeth Loder, discusses the pitfalls of nutritional...
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The BMJ Today: Drug company payments, compassion, and patient centredness
• Should doctors be forced to disclose payments and hospitality from drug companies? The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry plans to bring in a system where healthcare professionals...
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The BMJ Today: Bias that keeps researchers awake at night
• Last week, we saw that prospective registration of trials with specific outcome measures could have a huge impact. Addressing this kind of publication bias is a great step forward, although other...
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The BMJ Today: Urgent help for war torn Yemen
• Médecins Sans Frontières has urged donors and humanitarian organisations worldwide to pledge more in response to the increase of violence in Yemen, Anne Gulland writes. With WHO reporting that some...
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The BMJ Today: A digital day for The BMJ
• Should all NHS premises provide free access to wi-fi? Yes, argues Victoria Betton in a head to head article published today. Betton, mHabitat programme director at Leeds and York Partnership NHS...
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The BMJ Today: The changing roles and responsibilities of UK general practice
The past few days have seen a number of proposed changes to the regulation, roles, and responsibilities of general practice within the UK, as well as a stark reminder of the importance of ensuring GPs...
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The BMJ Today: Doctors’ salaries, football, and fossil fuels
• David Oliver: What should senior doctors be paid? In a column David Oliver hits out at politicians trying to “whip up outrage” at the pay of senior doctors, arguing that while substantial, they...
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The BMJ Today: Antibiotic prescribing and smoke free legislation
• GPs should consider delaying prescription of antibiotics, says NICE Data indicate that 90% of GPs feel pressurised into prescribing antibiotics to patients unnecessarily, according to a news story by...
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The BMJ Today: heroin, e-cigarettes, and alcohol
• Michael McCarthy reports on a new $13.4m White House initiative to tackle the growing heroin epidemic in the USA. Around half will go to bolstering law enforcement efforts, with the remainder spent...
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The BMJ Today: Is the UK ready for assisted dying?
• Jacky Davis and Ilora Finlay go head to head in a debate on the Assisted Dying Bill set to be read in parliament next month. They debate whether the bill’s provision requiring a High Court judge to...
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The BMJ Today: Searching for the seven day services plan
• A freedom of information (FOI) request from BMJ Careers has found that there was no formal correspondence between the Prime Minister and the medical director of NHS England on the definition of seven...
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The BMJ Today: Prescribing predicaments
• Concern over inappropriate use of psychotropic drugs in people with intellectual disability The proportion of people with intellectual disability in the UK who have been treated with psychotropic...
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