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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 UK government has unveiled its life sciences sector plan which includes proposals to speed up clinical trials, unlock NHS data for research, and cut red tape to help patients access new treatments ...

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 ...

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 ...