The BMJ

"(...) more staff left the NHS than at any time in the history of the service" @Kevin_Fong discusses legacies of Covid that remain with the NHS. Listen to full interview from the Medicine and Science Podcast - bit.ly/4t1BjVR

"Healthcare staff often experience regulation as intrusive and ineffective." Healthcare regulation needs to be reimagined to enable improvement, learning, and safety bmj.com/content/392/bm…

In January 2026, the EPA announced it would no longer consider healthcare savings and prevented deaths in regulations on air pollution. The agency is prioritising commercial interests and reframing what counts as evidence bmj.com/content/392/bm…

Doctors face complaints and scrutiny for speaking publicly about atrocities and attacks on healthcare. Complaint volume alone is a poor proxy for professional misconduct and escalation risks creating “punitive scrutiny”, say @RubinMinhas and colleagues bmj.com/content/392/bm…

The prime minister has given the BMA 48 hours to call off strikes by resident doctors or lose up to 4500 extra specialty training places over three years. However, there is confusion as to whether 1000 extra places promised for this year will go ahead bmj.com/content/392/bm…

A dedicated treatment pathway for women with endometriosis who are having difficulty conceiving has been added to national fertility guidelines bmj.com/content/392/bm…

Changes to the abortion laws in England and Wales signify a landmark and long overdue moment for women’s healthcare. Yet in the days following the vote much of the public conversation has been shaped by alarming misinformation, writes @AliWrightObGyn bmj.com/content/392/bm…

New York Hospitals terminates Palantir data analytics contract amid protests and public pressure bmj.com/content/392/bm…

Wellness trends are leading people who don’t have diabetes to buy continuous glucose monitors as a healthcare wearable, Hanan Hammad reports bmj.com/content/392/bm…

"You cannot disconnect the state of the health service today from what happened to it during Covid." @Kevin_Fong talks through the latest UK Covid Inquiry findings. Listen to full interview from the Medicine and Science Podcast - bit.ly/4t1BjVR

Updated UK guidance on vaginal pessaries for pelvic organ prolapse overlook implementation challenges bmj.com/content/392/bm…

GP Catherine Bell explains how writing poetry has connected her to likeminded medics and mums bmj.com/content/392/bm…

"Young people need a safe and confidential space in which to consult, just as adults do, but this is threatened by the Crime and Policing Bill." Confidentiality matters in general practice, writes Helen Salisbury bmj.com/content/392/bm…

Reforms to the General Medical Council will not allow physician assistants to receive certificates of completion of training, the government and regulator have said. bmj.com/content/392/bm…

Read about scientists genetically engineered E coli bacteria to help transform plastic waste into the Parkinson’s disease drug levodopa bmj.com/content/392/bm…

The Trump administration’s decision to halt most US foreign aid and development work constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, argue @cmrherder & colleagues. They call for global collaboration to mitigate the harms of policy changes bmj.com/content/392/bm…

Recent reports of private firms recruiting GPs to deliver care from overseas signal a shift from remote consulting within local services to provision untethered from geography. Policymakers must consider whether this risks weakening primary care bmj.com/content/392/bm…

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy is a common, debilitating disorder. This review covers its epidemiology, risk factors, and treatment approaches #MedEd bmj.com/content/392/bm…

Paper mills are a systemic threat to research integrity, contaminating the evidence, influencing citations, and potentially affecting clinical decision making. How does a new BMJ study add to the evidence on tackling this problem? bmj.com/content/392/bm…

The reports of two imported cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome #MERS in France in December 2025, along with the 14 cases reported in Saudi Arabia earlier in 2025, are reminders of the need to keep MERS under scrutiny bmj.com/content/392/bm…