I just happen to be in Naples tonight. It’s crazy. Well done Napoli
May 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I just happen to be in Naples tonight. It’s crazy. Well done Napoli
Jenny Harries from
@ukhsa.bsky.social has a message for public health doctors - be bold and confident. ‘Bold interventions can dramatically shift the dial.’
@ukhsa.bsky.social has a message for public health doctors - be bold and confident. ‘Bold interventions can dramatically shift the dial.’
Rising cases of TB and measles in England demand ambitious public health approach, says Harries
Rising cases of tuberculosis (TB) and measles and an intense influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) season were seen in England in 2024-25, reiterating the fact that “we cannot be complacent,...
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March 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Jenny Harries from
@ukhsa.bsky.social has a message for public health doctors - be bold and confident. ‘Bold interventions can dramatically shift the dial.’
@ukhsa.bsky.social has a message for public health doctors - be bold and confident. ‘Bold interventions can dramatically shift the dial.’
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The Call for Speakers for the 2025 Power of WIM Summit closes 3/28.
Whether you’re a trailblazing clinician, passionate advocate, or quiet force making waves—we want your voice in the room.
Submit your proposal or nominate someone who should be on that stage:
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#WIMStrongerTogether
Whether you’re a trailblazing clinician, passionate advocate, or quiet force making waves—we want your voice in the room.
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March 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The Call for Speakers for the 2025 Power of WIM Summit closes 3/28.
Whether you’re a trailblazing clinician, passionate advocate, or quiet force making waves—we want your voice in the room.
Submit your proposal or nominate someone who should be on that stage:
bit.ly/4iOm6S0
#WIMStrongerTogether
Whether you’re a trailblazing clinician, passionate advocate, or quiet force making waves—we want your voice in the room.
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#WIMStrongerTogether
What is the best health policy? A good home for everyone says @andyburnham.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social conference. ‘The best investment we can make is to build council houses at scale as we did after WW2.’
March 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
What is the best health policy? A good home for everyone says @andyburnham.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social conference. ‘The best investment we can make is to build council houses at scale as we did after WW2.’
Housing first says mayor of Greater Manchester @andyburnham.bsky.social at the UKHSA conference. ‘I didn’t know that when I was health secretary but good housing builds resilience and everything is possible.’
March 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Housing first says mayor of Greater Manchester @andyburnham.bsky.social at the UKHSA conference. ‘I didn’t know that when I was health secretary but good housing builds resilience and everything is possible.’
This explainer is the top of the News hit parade on @bmj.com at the moment. For us in the journalism team there is a benefit to scrapping NHS England - no more being sent from one agency (NHSE) to another (DHSC) when seeking a response for a story!
Why is NHS England being abolished, and what’s next?
Jacqui Wise examines the “high stakes move” by ministers to embark on another reorganisation of the health service
NHS England was created by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government as...
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March 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This explainer is the top of the News hit parade on @bmj.com at the moment. For us in the journalism team there is a benefit to scrapping NHS England - no more being sent from one agency (NHSE) to another (DHSC) when seeking a response for a story!
NHS leaders responded too slowly and too weakly to the abuse levelled at healthcare workers in last summer's riots. “They need to be upfront, call it for what it is, give people practical support, and make sure that zero tolerance means zero tolerance,” @salmanwaqar.bsky.social tells The BMJ
“I received verbal abuse walking to work in my scrubs”—how the racist riots of 2024 affected NHS staff
Doctors were left feeling angry and unsupported after NHS leaders failed to take the threat of racism and Islamophobia seriously. Annabel Sowemimo and Zosia Kmietowicz report
Last summer an estimated...
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February 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
NHS leaders responded too slowly and too weakly to the abuse levelled at healthcare workers in last summer's riots. “They need to be upfront, call it for what it is, give people practical support, and make sure that zero tolerance means zero tolerance,” @salmanwaqar.bsky.social tells The BMJ
You're pulling my leg! This has a medical angle? Oh yes, as @garethiacobucci.bsky.social explains in 60 seconds
Sixty seconds on . . . comedy
They do. And trials are underway to put this old cliché to the test.
It’s no joke. A pilot study has been launched to see if comedy on prescription, as an alternative to antidepressants for patients ...
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February 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
You're pulling my leg! This has a medical angle? Oh yes, as @garethiacobucci.bsky.social explains in 60 seconds
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As doctors, researchers, and other academics flee X (formerly Twitter), @munkeatlooi.bsky.social looks at what the social network Bluesky is and why #MedSky might be worth trying
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February 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
As doctors, researchers, and other academics flee X (formerly Twitter), @munkeatlooi.bsky.social looks at what the social network Bluesky is and why #MedSky might be worth trying
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www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Have you seen our new coverage on Racism in Medicine, asking what's changed since The BMJ's special issue in 2020? www.bmj.com/racism-in-me...
February 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Have you seen our new coverage on Racism in Medicine, asking what's changed since The BMJ's special issue in 2020? www.bmj.com/racism-in-me...
Anthony Martinelli, who co-chairs the RCP’s resident doctor committee, said, “This review cannot be another listening exercise—it must result in clear reform of the way our physicians are trained.”
Review of postgraduate medical training must tackle high competition ratios, say doctors
Doctors’ leaders are warning that a new NHS England review of all postgraduate medical training must deliver “clear reform” and not be a token “listening exercise.”
England’s chief medical officer Ch...
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February 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Anthony Martinelli, who co-chairs the RCP’s resident doctor committee, said, “This review cannot be another listening exercise—it must result in clear reform of the way our physicians are trained.”
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Four years on from the founding of the NHS Race and Health Observatory, @drhnaqvi.bsky.social looks back on the progress made and warns us not to be complacent in tackling #racism
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February 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Four years on from the founding of the NHS Race and Health Observatory, @drhnaqvi.bsky.social looks back on the progress made and warns us not to be complacent in tackling #racism
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Are medical schools better at dealing with reports of racism from students than they were five years ago? “There’s definitely a sense of accountability from organisations, but also from students. But the movement is still relatively slow.” @garethiacobucci.bsky.social reports
Racism in medical schools: are things improving?
Five years ago a BMJ investigation found that medical students were being let down by poor monitoring and responses to complaints of racism. Gareth Iacobucci repeated the exercise to see whether any p...
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February 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Are medical schools better at dealing with reports of racism from students than they were five years ago? “There’s definitely a sense of accountability from organisations, but also from students. But the movement is still relatively slow.” @garethiacobucci.bsky.social reports
It's 5 years since #thebmj published an issue on Racism in Medicine. Has anything improved since then? We have a series of articles exploring this topic, including this editorial by two GPs who were arrested in 1993 for exposing racial discrimination in doctors' careers
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www.bmj.com/racism-in-me...
Measuring race equality in the NHS workforce
A perception of endemic discrimination persists
When we first highlighted the problem of racial discrimination in the medical profession in 1993, we were arrested by the police for making fraudulent ...
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February 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
It's 5 years since #thebmj published an issue on Racism in Medicine. Has anything improved since then? We have a series of articles exploring this topic, including this editorial by two GPs who were arrested in 1993 for exposing racial discrimination in doctors' careers
www.bmj.com/racism-in-me...
www.bmj.com/racism-in-me...
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“Work must continue to ensure the process by which employers consider whether to refer, and how the GMC considers those referrals, is fair and transparent."
A referral is statistically more likely for doctors from ethnic minorities. How can we respond?
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A referral is statistically more likely for doctors from ethnic minorities. How can we respond?
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
February 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“Work must continue to ensure the process by which employers consider whether to refer, and how the GMC considers those referrals, is fair and transparent."
A referral is statistically more likely for doctors from ethnic minorities. How can we respond?
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
A referral is statistically more likely for doctors from ethnic minorities. How can we respond?
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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ATTENTION: ALL JOURNAL EDITORS.
Have the courage that Jocalyn Clark and Kamran Abbasi at the BMJ have displayed here.
Call all this out for what it is. And then refuse to comply.
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Have the courage that Jocalyn Clark and Kamran Abbasi at the BMJ have displayed here.
Call all this out for what it is. And then refuse to comply.
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology
The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...
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February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
ATTENTION: ALL JOURNAL EDITORS.
Have the courage that Jocalyn Clark and Kamran Abbasi at the BMJ have displayed here.
Call all this out for what it is. And then refuse to comply.
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Have the courage that Jocalyn Clark and Kamran Abbasi at the BMJ have displayed here.
Call all this out for what it is. And then refuse to comply.
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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McDonald's is overturning council attempts to prevent new fast food outlets by claiming they will encourage healthier lifestyles, reveals a BMJ investigation.
It shows the firm has won planning appeals in some of the most deprived areas of England
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It shows the firm has won planning appeals in some of the most deprived areas of England
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February 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
McDonald's is overturning council attempts to prevent new fast food outlets by claiming they will encourage healthier lifestyles, reveals a BMJ investigation.
It shows the firm has won planning appeals in some of the most deprived areas of England
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
It shows the firm has won planning appeals in some of the most deprived areas of England
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
This piece on dealing with rude colleagues by @abirimmer.bsky.social is proving very popular with readers
How should I deal with a rude colleague?
Confronting poor behaviour from someone you work with can seem difficult but there are ways to respond, Abi Rimmer hears
Rakesh Patel, professor of medical education and head of the bachelor of medic...
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February 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This piece on dealing with rude colleagues by @abirimmer.bsky.social is proving very popular with readers
Another superwoman - New York State Governor Kathy Hochul: “I will never under any circumstances turn this doctor over to the state of Louisiana under any extradition request. I will do everything I can to protect this doctor and allow her to do the work that she’s doing that is so essential.”
New York State boosts legal protections for doctors who prescribe abortion pills by mail
New York State Governor Kathy Hochul signed a new law on 3 February to further defend New York doctors who prescribe abortion medication by telehealth to patients who live in states that ban abortion....
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February 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Another superwoman - New York State Governor Kathy Hochul: “I will never under any circumstances turn this doctor over to the state of Louisiana under any extradition request. I will do everything I can to protect this doctor and allow her to do the work that she’s doing that is so essential.”
@emahase.bsky.social reports from today's press conference on the medical evidence of Lucy Letby's convictions. The independent panel conlcuded that there was “no medical evidence to support malfeasance” and that the deaths were the result of “either natural causes or bad medical care.”
Lucy Letby: No medical evidence to suggest murder, experts conclude
An independent investigation by a panel of 14 international experts into the cause of injury and death of the babies Lucy Letby is convicted of murdering or attempting to murder has claimed that there...
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February 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
@emahase.bsky.social reports from today's press conference on the medical evidence of Lucy Letby's convictions. The independent panel conlcuded that there was “no medical evidence to support malfeasance” and that the deaths were the result of “either natural causes or bad medical care.”
Katharine Halliday, president of the Royal College of Radiologists: “We need to dial back [on AI presenting us with solutions] and look at the problems we have in the NHS—and in healthcare generally —and then try to find a solution that fits our problem.” @stokel.bsky.social reports
Artificial intelligence in medicine: How do experts think AI could transform the NHS?
AI presents some exciting opportunities for the NHS, but leaders need to drive the technology and not the other way round, reports Chris Stokel-Walker
Artificial intelligence will be a gamechanger w...
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February 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Katharine Halliday, president of the Royal College of Radiologists: “We need to dial back [on AI presenting us with solutions] and look at the problems we have in the NHS—and in healthcare generally —and then try to find a solution that fits our problem.” @stokel.bsky.social reports
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In recent years, the NHS has faced numerous drug shortages, with serious consequences for patients and healthcare professionals.
Tackling drug shortages must be an urgent priority for the NHS, write Mohammad Razai and colleagues
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Tackling drug shortages must be an urgent priority for the NHS, write Mohammad Razai and colleagues
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
January 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
In recent years, the NHS has faced numerous drug shortages, with serious consequences for patients and healthcare professionals.
Tackling drug shortages must be an urgent priority for the NHS, write Mohammad Razai and colleagues
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Tackling drug shortages must be an urgent priority for the NHS, write Mohammad Razai and colleagues
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Why do we need ethicists? So people trust science, says The BMJ's new ethics committee chair. "To sustain trust, healthcare professionals must consistently demonstrate their trustworthiness. Ethics plays a vital role in this, ensuring that progress aligns with societal values and needs."
The only way is ethics: meet the new chair of The BMJ’s ethics committee
Siobhán O’Sullivan cites AI and trust as the ethical challenges of today—and decries the back seat that medical ethics is often pushed into
I was working in translational medicine at the Royal Free H...
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January 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Why do we need ethicists? So people trust science, says The BMJ's new ethics committee chair. "To sustain trust, healthcare professionals must consistently demonstrate their trustworthiness. Ethics plays a vital role in this, ensuring that progress aligns with societal values and needs."
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And it’s out! The 7th edition of How to Read a Paper, coauthored with new blood in the shape of my ex PhD student Paul Dijkstra @drpauldijkstra.bsky.social. So good working with you on this Paul!
January 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
And it’s out! The 7th edition of How to Read a Paper, coauthored with new blood in the shape of my ex PhD student Paul Dijkstra @drpauldijkstra.bsky.social. So good working with you on this Paul!