How BMJ Global Health underpinned WHO and UNICEF's first community hand hygiene guidelines In October 2025, BMJ Global Health published an open access supplement, The evidence to establish global guidelines on hand hygiene in community settings. The collection brings together five systematic reviews and forms the evidence ...
Improving allied health decision making to reduce readmissions Hospital readmissions place sustained pressure on inpatient services and are frequently influenced by modifiable factors, including how patients are identified for targeted allied health input. Observational studies have shown that higher hospital investment in occupational therapy is associated with lower readmission ...
How connections made at the International Forum accelerated international change In 2020, Australia's largest public health service, Monash Health, began work to improve recognition of paediatric deterioration by partnering more closely with parents and families. A co-design process with consumers and clinicians resulted in a single proactive ...
LONDON – BMJ Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Niels Peter Thomas as CEO, BMJ Publishing, effective 15 April 2026. Niels will lead all global publishing activities for the healthcare knowledge provider. This includes the world-renowned journal The BMJ, and nearly 70 speciality journals, alongside the Group’s Events, Careers, ...
Spotlight on the Communicate study: Northern Territory Health In the hospitals of the Northern Territory state of Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience poorer outcomes and higher rates of self-discharge than non-Indigenous patients. These disparities reflect the ongoing effects of colonisation, structural racism and communication ...
BMJ Case Reports: spotlight on nutritional safety The BMJ Case Report, "Scurvy – a re-emerging disease with the rising cost of living and number of bariatric surgical procedures”, arose when a man in his early fifties presented to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Western Australia with a ...
Improving youth healthcare across Queensland, Australia The Queensland Clinical Senate is an advisory body for Queensland Health that brings clinicians together to examine how the health system is working in practice. At the Adolescent to Young Adult Care: Doing Better meeting in December 2020, clinicians were clear that ...
BMJ Group has partnered with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to strengthen how people and communities are involved in medical research. Varied Voices, a free online course developed by NIHR and supported by BMJ Learning, helps healthcare professionals understand how inclusion and diversity improve the ...
1 in 3 consultant jobs unfilled in some parts of the NHS, data shows £674m spent on locums in 2024/5 with negative effects on staff morale and patient care The NHS is reaching a crisis point in consultant recruitment as 1 in 3 consultant posts lie vacant in some parts ...
The BMJ publication paves the way for FDA qualification of an AI tool A groundbreaking study published in The BMJ in 2019, Prediction system for risk of allograft loss in patients receiving kidney transplants: international derivation and validation study, has laid the foundation for the iBox Scoring System: a powerful AI-driven ...
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