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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

China’s central government has intervened after hundreds of cases of lead poisoning at a private nursery in the country’s impoverished north west, days after local officials blamed industrial paint ...

Patients and clinicians deserve more rigorous reporting from the BMJ.

A new once daily triple drug treatment for cystic fibrosis is set to be “immediately funded” by NHS England following recommendation from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).1 ...

Gillian Leng has acknowledged that her “pragmatic” solution to the PA matter “won’t be universally popular.” Jacqui Wise summarises the reactions from medical leaders The BMA has criticised Gillian ...