From international learning to local change Sandra Brownlea, staff specialist in the emergency department at Royal Darwin Hospital in Australia, identified inequitable and culturally unsafe care for frequent emergency department attenders, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients. Social complexity was often addressed through a biomedical lens, ...
Strengthening the case for Benedict’s Law through evidence and advocacy Research in Archives of Disease in Childhood (ADC), published by BMJ Group, has helped inform national policy on child safety and contributed to progress in achieving Benedict's Law, a set of national protections designed to ...
The BMJ research: sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors and risk of autoimmune rheumatic diseases In October 2025, The BMJ published the first nationwide population based cohort study to examine the association between sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and risk of autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs). Drawing on data from more than ...
New BMJ Collection calls for evidence based and sustainable mental health support in conflict settings A new collection on Child Mental Health in Conflict Settings published by The BMJ, in partnership with the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), calls for evidence based, scalable, sustainable, and long term interventions ...
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 ...
Reflections from the past 30 years Since 1996, the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare has brought together clinicians, policymakers and improvers from around the world. This special supplement highlights voices and experience from three decades of shared learning that has helped shape safer, higher ...
Supporting early-career voices in improvement work The next generation advisory panel (NGAP) ensures that the perspectives of early-career healthcare professionals inform the planning and delivery of the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare. The panel advises on programme development and provides strategic direction on how ...
From sandpit to system-wide impact In December 2022, the inaugural BMJ Research Forum brought together 300 participants at the British Medical Association in London, UK. It was there that they were introduced to the Sandpit Methodology: a structured, intensive, multi-day collaborative workshop approach for generating interdisciplinary research ...
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