How positive you feel depends on your perspective (doi:10.1136/bmj-2025-084613).3 The rapid introduction of physician associates and anaesthesia associates was, in an era of self-inflicted damage, ...

Gillian Leng led NICE for 20 years and now serves as president of the Royal Society of Medicine. Her landmark review into physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs and AAs) proposes a new direction ...

Both the BMA and the health and social care secretary Wes Streeting said talks on 17 July to try to avert strike action by resident doctors were “constructive.” It appears unlikely the government will ...

Penny Dash’s review of patient safety in England has recommended major changes to the organisational landscape.1 National bodies will be abolished or merged, and strategic planning and coordination is ...

People living in the most deprived areas in England have longer waits for planned hospital care than those in less deprived areas, NHS data show.1 For the first time, NHS England has broken down ...

The BMA’s annual local medical committee conference in May passed a motion that international medical graduates should not be disadvantaged when applying for training posts.1 It also noted that ...

As parliament continues to debate welfare reform and the two child benefit cap, thousands of children in the UK don’t have their own bed because their families can’t afford it. It’s a hidden public ...

Mark, as he was known to his friends and patients, was a charismatic, eccentric, and much loved GP who served the population of Beechdale in Nottingham for 19 years. He came to the UK from the ...

John McKenzie Kennedy was born a twin in Aberdeen weighing 1.13 kg (2.5 lb). The family moved south to be closer to Southampton where his father was the captain of an oil tanker. John attended ...

Chris was born in Nottingham on 14 February 1946. While his career in medicine began as his father’s aspiration for him, he transformed this inheritance into a genuine vocation, serving countless ...

Arumugam Nallasivan, fondly known as Nally to his colleagues, graduated from Stanley Medical College in Chennai, India, and completed medical training in hospitals across the north of England. From ...

Vickers and colleagues’ recommendation to implement electronic blood management systems for transfusion safety is timely.1 Most reports made to the UK haemovigilance scheme, Serious Hazards of ...