Time to see lived experience in healthcare as expertise

New BMJ collection calls for global action to ensure patients, caregivers, and relatives are valued equally to other experts It’s time to see lived experience - knowledge gained by being a patient, caregiver, or relative - as essential expertise, to ensure that healthcare is relevant, responsive, effective, resilient, equitable, and ...

2025-07-08T11:29:59+00:008 July 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

Physician associates provide safe care for diagnosed patients when directly supervised by a doctor

But allowing them to care for patients with undiagnosed conditions under indirect supervision may risk patients’ safety, finds a rapid review Physician associates provide safe and effective care when they work under the direct supervision of doctors and care for patients who have already been diagnosed, or when they undertake ...

2025-07-04T09:14:32+00:004 July 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

Mental health disorders, malaria, and heart disease most affected by covid pandemic

Findings provide a roadmap to help strengthen health systems for future crises Disrupted care during the covid-19 pandemic led to sharp increases in other non-covid causes of illness and death, particularly mental health disorders, malaria in young children, and stroke and heart disease in older adults, finds a study published ...

2025-07-03T11:10:04+00:003 July 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

Racism and sexism are “alarmingly normalised” in the NHS

Evidence of impact of discrimination and inequalities is clear; what is needed now is action from government and NHS institutions, says the BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS Racism and sexism are “alarmingly normalised” within the structures and person-to-person interactions across the NHS, and the NHS has delayed ...

2025-07-01T14:32:35+00:001 July 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

GP performance pay fails to drive lasting changes in quality of care

Financial incentives alone are no magic bullet to improve quality, say researchers Introducing performance related pay for UK general practices initially improved quality of care, but did not seem to provide lasting improvements beyond that expected by previous trends, finds a study published by The BMJ today. And initial gains in quality ...

2025-06-26T09:24:42+00:0026 June 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

‘Virtual ward’ bed uses 4 times less carbon than traditional inpatient bed

These wards have the potential to reduce need to build more high-carbon impact hospitals A virtual ward bed uses 4 times less carbon than a traditional inpatient bed, so helping the NHS achieve its net zero target by 2045, finds the first study of its kind, published in the open ...

2025-06-18T10:09:50+00:0018 June 2025|BMJ Innovations, Press release|

Failure to focus on covid suppression led to avoidable UK deaths, says expert

UK approach raises questions about medical and scientific advice Early in the covid-19 pandemic, the failure of UK government advisers to follow World Health Organization (WHO) advice and emerging evidence from East Asia that suppression could bring the virus under control quickly led to avoidable UK deaths, argues an expert ...

2025-05-12T09:58:17+00:0012 May 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

Too few ward nurses linked to longer hospital stay, readmission, and risk of death

Redressing balance saves around £5000 for each year of healthy life gained But not if temporary agency staff are used Employing too few permanent nurses on hospital wards is linked to longer inpatient stays, readmissions, patient deaths, and ultimately costs more in lives and money, finds a long term study ...

2025-05-01T09:29:11+00:0030 April 2025|BMJ Quality & Safety, Press release|

China’s malaria-free status offers crucial lessons for other areas

Special BMJ collection explores China's path to elimination and how it may inform strategies elsewhere, but experts warn that funding declines would reverse hard won gains China’s success in achieving malaria-free status in 2021 offers crucial lessons for the global malaria fight, say experts in a special collection of articles published by The ...

Academic medicine is in urgent need of a revolution, say experts

The BMJ Commission on the Future of Academic Medicine sets out its vision to transform academic medicine and help improve population and planetary health Academic medicine is in urgent need of a revolution, say experts in the first report of The BMJ Commission on the Future of Academic Medicine as they set ...

2025-04-11T08:59:09+00:0010 April 2025|Press release, The BMJ|
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