Customised charts could help improve maternity safety, say researchers One-size-fits-all fetal growth charts used in the NHS to monitor babies' growth before birth often misclassify babies as being either too small or too large, which can lead to missed cases at risk of stillbirth or unnecessary interventions, finds a study ...
Absolute risk is low, but findings support ongoing efforts to reduce use and duration of mechanical restraint where feasible Mechanical restraint is associated with a small increased short term risk of blood clots among inpatients at psychiatric hospitals, finds a Danish study published by The BMJ today. Although the absolute risk remains ...
The detrimental impact on NHS care by divesting from these services could lead to 229,000 deaths by 2036 – more deaths than the covid-19 pandemic Around £45bn in NHS funding will be diverted from other NHS care by 2036 to pay more for new medicines under the UK-US trade deal ...
Longer term evaluation needed, but current age verification checks are “suboptimal” and being bypassed by many under 16s, warn researchers There is little evidence that Australia's Social Media Minimum Age Act has led to any immediate reductions in social media use by under 16s, finds an early analysis of survey data published by The BMJ today. ...
Concerns that money is being used to prop up frontline care Medical leaders urge trusts to stop treating universities like a “cash cow” Hundreds of millions of pounds given to NHS trusts for educating future doctors is falling into a “black hole” and the majority of trusts have failed to ...
Levels of this carcinogen regularly top 8 hour EU limit in 70% of NHS pathology departments Urgent regulatory intervention now warranted, say researchers Routine exposure to harmful levels of the human tissue preservative formaldehyde are risking the health of thousands of NHS staff working in pathology departments across the UK, ...
The debate must continue until parliament reaches a decision, they argue Eight peers of the House of Lords with nursing and medical backgrounds are urging MPs to continue to support urgent law reform on assisted dying after the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill failed to reach a vote ...
Time to restore kindness and compassion in healthcare to improve patient and staff well-being Healthcare has lost its human, moral, and relational foundations and must reconnect with its core values to improve both patient and staff well-being, argue experts in The BMJ today. Despite unprecedented advances in diagnostic precision, therapeutic capability, and ...
Approval mechanisms must be grounded in patient need and population health A new UK drug approval pathway, designed to speed up the availability of new medicines, benefits industry over patients and the NHS, argues an expert in The BMJ today. The pathway aligns regulatory review by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory ...
Estimates suggest between 3000-3700 such cases every year Stark disparity underscores urgent need for government and policy action, say researchers Prisoners in England are 41 to 67 times more likely to experience avoidable harms as a result of poor healthcare than the general public, suggest the findings of a case note ...
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