Bridging the gap: supporting international doctors in UK care with BMJ Best Practice

When Dr Anish John Kuriakose moved to the UK to practise medicine, he faced a challenge common to many international clinicians—navigating a new healthcare system with different guidelines and expectations. For him, BMJ Best Practice became a crucial bridge. BMJ Best Practice helped me transition to UK care-based ...

2025-06-17T13:59:38+00:004 June 2025|Group news, Our impact|

Why an intersectional gender approach matters for social innovations in health 🌍

Health challenges go beyond clinical interventions—social, cultural, and political factors deeply influence outcomes. Recognising how gender intersects with socio-economic factors is crucial for achieving health equity.   The latest collection in BMJ Innovations, produced in partnership with TDR, explores innovations to ensure interventions are inclusive and responsive to marginalised groups ...

Over 130 health journals call for renewed WHO mandate on health effects of nuclear war

End nuclear weapons, before they end us, warn experts BMJ Group has joined health journals across the world to publish an editorial urging governments to restore a World Health Organization (WHO) mandate to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war - and support a new UN study on the effects ...

2025-05-14T16:02:57+00:0014 May 2025|Group news, Press release, The BMJ|

Raising awareness of a rare but serious risk linked to menstrual cup use

When Dr Clara Maarup Prip, a urologist and gynaecologist at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, encountered a rare case of ureterohydronephrosis caused by a menstrual cup, she’d never seen anything like it. Nor had her supervisor, or any other senior doctors in the urology department. Ureterohydronephrosis is the swelling of the ureter ...

2025-04-30T19:06:29+00:0030 April 2025|BMJ Case Reports, Group news, Our impact|

2025 Racism in Medicine: are we making any progress?

Since 2020, we have published landmark collections and ongoing coverage of racism in medicine. The BMJ highlighted the racial discrimination and health inequalities experienced by patients and doctors in a special campaigning issue.As the first journal publication solely focused on calling for action against racism in medicine, The BMJ directly ...

2025-04-25T14:46:45+00:0025 April 2025|Group news, Our impact, The BMJ|

BMJ Investigations Unit empowers councils to challenge fast food planning decisions

An exclusive BMJ investigation has uncovered how McDonald's is systematically undermining councils' efforts to block new outlets—particularly in deprived areas of England, where rates of childhood obesity are alarmingly high. Based on freedom of information requests to the Planning Inspectorate, The BMJ found that McDonald's has lodged 14 planning appeals ...

2025-04-14T14:54:49+00:0014 April 2025|Group news, Our impact|

BMJ Group expands open access reach with new Read and Publish agreements

Global partnerships expand opportunities for researchers to maximise the impact of their work April 2025 — Global healthcare knowledge provider, BMJ Group, is expanding its open access reach by introducing new and renewed Read and Publish agreements for 2025, further reinforcing its ongoing support for enhancing global knowledge sharing. ...

2025-04-09T07:22:56+00:009 April 2025|Corporate announcement, Group news, Partnership|

Mobilising knowledge for quality improvement and learning health systems

Optimising patient management with BMJ Best Practice The impact of clinical decision support on hospital efficiency Free institutional trial Subscribe to BMJ Best Practice BMJ Best Practice is a valuable tool for frontline health professionals, helping to improve patient care and ...

2025-03-12T12:42:45+00:0012 March 2025|Group news, Our impact|
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