Pay increases alone may not be sufficient to fix NHS staff retention, researchers suggest Work stress, high workload, and understaffing are the primary factors driving health professionals out of the NHS, suggest the results of a survey published in the open access journal BMJ Open. The findings prompt the researchers to suggest that ...
Pay, work-life balance, and working conditions key drivers for decision, finds survey Around 1 in 3 UK medical students plans to leave the NHS within 2 years of graduating—either to practise abroad or to abandon medicine altogether—suggest the results of the largest survey of its kind, published in the open ...
Activity focused on meeting minimum requirement, after which it tails off There’s strong evidence of a ‘threshold effect’ in English hospitals’ efforts to comply with the 18-week referral to treatment standard, concludes a long term data analysis of performance against the target, published online in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety. ...
Move follows concerns that the $125 million dollar project could inadvertently ignite a pandemic For more than a decade, the US government has been funding international programs engaged in identifying exotic wildlife viruses that might someday infect humans. But today, The BMJ can reveal that a flagship project for hunting viruses ...
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and its members urged to establish a standard for transparently disclosing payments The BMJ’s editor in chief is urging the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and its members to establish a standard for declaring payments they receive from industry and patient groups in the wake of ...
Exerts personal and operational effects, manifest in absenteeism and workforce attrition Patient aggression towards receptionists working in general practice is a “serious workplace safety concern,” concludes a review of the available published evidence, published in the open access journal Family Medicine and Community Health. Not only does it affect the wellbeing ...
Experienced by nearly all (93%) of those assessed in first of its kind UK-wide evaluation Deficit more likely in district general hospitals than teaching hospitals and cancer centres People dying in UK hospitals without specialist palliative care input frequently have “significant and poorly identified unmet needs,” finds a UK-wide evaluation—the ...
Exerts personal and operational effects, manifest in absenteeism and workforce attrition Patient aggression towards receptionists working in general practice is a “serious workplace safety concern,” concludes a review of the available published evidence, published in the open access journal Family Medicine and Community Health. Not only does it affect the wellbeing ...
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 ...
Progressive step, but ruling still has important shortcomings + missed opportunities, say specialists The newly revised ruling on advance medical directives and withholding/withdrawing medical support for the dying in India will inevitably force some terminally ill patients to “live a life of machine-related suffering” and deprive them of their autonomy ...
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