Number of GPs and hospital doctors opting for voluntary early retirement has increased by an average of 9%+ a year since 2008 Increasing numbers of doctors are opting to take voluntary early retirement, rather than waiting to claim their pension at retirement age, official figures show. Figures provided to The BMJ by ...

It’s time for some of the world’s best hospitals and research institutes to examine their role in the deadly legacy of a stem cell charlatan, say researchers It’s time for some of the world’s best hospitals and research institutes to launch full and independent investigations into their support for disgraced ...

Higher quality data needed to understand and address “stark and persistent” inequalities across the life course The NHS will be “flying blind” in its attempts to meet its legal, and moral, obligation to eliminate ethnic inequalities in health and care until longstanding problems with the quality of ethnicity data are resolved, warns ...

Among Lasker award winners of last 70 years, only 8% have been women and only 4% have been non-white individuals Researchers call for more transparency around the entire awards process The number of women and non-white people in academic medicine and biomedical research continues to increase, yet the proportion of women among Lasker Award recipients ...

Especially from neglected tropical diseases and malaria, maternal and neonatal disorders, diabetes and kidney diseases Shortages of health workers such as doctors, nurses and midwifery staff are strongly associated with higher death rates, especially for certain diseases such as neglected tropical diseases and malaria, pregnancy and birth complications, diabetes and ...

More work needed to better understand what happens when pay for performance is withdrawn, say experts Ending performance related payments for NHS GPs in Scotland was associated with a decline in the quality of some aspects of care compared with England where financial incentives have continued, finds a study published ...

Unequal post-surgery death rate mainly applies to planned surgeries  Findings highlight the need for better understanding of the challenges facing Black men requiring surgery in the US  Black men have a higher death rate within 30 days of surgery compared with any other subgroup of race and sex, finds a ...

New data shows some private hospitals treated few inpatients Experts are questioning why NHS England bought up private hospital’s entire capacity rather than paying for activity that was delivered Private hospitals were paid around £2bn to help the NHS during the first year of the covid pandemic. But an investigation ...