How publishing in BMJ Open Quality and attending the Healthcare Improvement Forum helped advance a system-wide project

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 ...

2026-08-25T15:24:44+01:0018 December 2025|BMJ Open Quality, Corporate announcement, Events, Our impact|

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2026-04-09T13:31:25+01:0010 November 2025|Our impact, Thought leadership, Uncategorised|

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 kidney swelling (ureterohydronephrosis) caused by a menstrual cup, it was unlike anything she had seen before. The menstrual cup had been compressing the ureter where it enters the bladder, leading ...

2026-04-09T13:23:48+01:002 October 2025|BMJ Case Reports, Corporate announcement, Our impact|

BMJ Group retracts trial on apple cider vinegar and weight loss

Journalists and others should no longer reference or use the study findings in future reporting BMJ Group has retracted research suggesting that small daily quantities of apple cider vinegar might help people who are overweight or obese to lose weight. The small clinical trial was published in the open access ...

Facing the future, fueling the NHS

Hospital to community Analogue to digital Sickness to prevention Quality & safety Workforce Innovation Facing the future, fueling the NHS How BMJ Group is helping deliver the NHS 10-year health plan The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) 10 ...

2026-05-12T11:42:11+01:0018 September 2025|Our impact|

Lack of soap most reported barrier to effective hand hygiene in shared community spaces

Efforts to improve handwashing don’t always include basics of access to soap + water Lack of hand hygiene causes annual 740,000 deaths from diarrhoea or respiratory infections  But despite global recognition of its importance governments slow to act on hand hygiene A lack of soap is the most often reported ...

2026-04-09T13:31:32+01:0017 September 2025|BMJ Global Health, Collection, Our impact, Partnership, Press release|
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