The current process for managing sexual misconduct perpetrated by doctors in the UK requires major reform, argue Mei Nortley and colleagues Sexual harassment is an endemic problem within the NHS. In a ...

Future role of GMC under challenge The recently expanded remit of the General Medical Council (GMC) to regulate physician and anaesthesia assistants (PAs and AAs) has given rise to political tensions.

Europe lacks the ability to track and deal with recurring severe shortages of medicines, which reached record levels in 2024, warns a report by the European Court of Auditors.1 It found that European ...

BMJ journalists have won three prizes at the 2025 Medical Journalists’ Association (MJA) awards this week, including for investigative reporting and mental health journalism. The MJA awards shine a ...

Racism in NHS maternity care is an ongoing problem responsible for poorer outcomes among black women in England, an inquiry by MPs has concluded. Black women are more than twice as likely as white ...

Effective public health, financial aid, and regulatory interventions have proven benefits against disease and death. But many countries, not just the US, seem to be reversing their course—deliberately ...

The former head of cardiovascular surgery at Blackpool Victoria Hospital—who was accused of creating a “toxic and sexualised culture” there—has been given a six year jail sentence for sexually ...

I became a GP trainer early in my career, so I’ve been involved in medical education for nearly 40 years. When I started I was attached to the British Postgraduate Medical Federation, but in the 1990s ...

The number of drugs prescribed for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in England continues to rise steadily, latest NHS figures show.1 Quarterly data from April to June this year showed ...

To fully understand our patients, we ideally need to have shared experience with them,” paediatric trainee Sophie Jackson said. “Having doctors of diverse backgrounds and abilities is crucial because ...

UK law is currently failing people who are terminally ill and must be changed to give people autonomy and allow “dignity in their dying days,” the Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has said. Speaking to The ...

Drummond Rennie, a British-American nephrologist turned legendary medical editor who devoted his career to championing scientific literature and peer review, has died in Oregon aged 89. Rennie, who ...