The UK government has announced plans to introduce a league table of NHS providers, with rewards for the leaders.1 Managers get more pay for better performance, but what do all the staff get who do ...

The UK Medical Research Council’s plans to redirect funding to new “centres of research excellence” (CoREs) could force existing MRC research units to close, eminent scientists have warned. In an open ...

Israel has reportedly ordered the closure and evacuation of Kamal Adwan Hospital—one of the last semi-functioning hospitals left in northern Gaza—putting the lives of dozens of patients at risk, ...

Announcing investments in a five year trial ­­­­­­of tirzepatide (a glucagon-like peptide-1 analogue weight loss drug), health secretary Wes Streeting showed support for prioritising patients able to ...

Credit: Rowena Sheehan Far too many people dying and grieving remain undersupported and feared. Dying is “as natural and inevitable a transition as birth,” says Lucy Selman, an expert in dying and ...

Despite growing public interest in death, support for end-of-life care and bereavement remains inadequate. We urgently need a community centred, public health approach to the social processes of dying ...

Getting aid to the millions facing “mass starvation” in Sudan’s brutal and escalating civil war is a top priority for the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the subject of this year’s BMJ appeal.

The BMJ ’s 2024-25 appeal is supporting the work of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in conflict zones all over the world. Elisabeth Mahase takes a closer look at what the IRC is doing Sudan, ...

Lucy Letby’s new lawyers are asking the Court of Appeal to immediately review all her convictions after the lead expert witness for the prosecution “changed his mind” about the cause of death for ...

The government has released preliminary details of what it wants to include in the new contract for GPs in England, including adding an extra £889m to the existing budget for general practice.

With vaccination rates against respiratory illnesses continuing to decline among healthcare staff, Emma Wilkinson examines what’s behind the trend and efforts to tackle it Flu hit early this year, and ...

Research funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will have to be made publicly available without a period of delay,1 under the agency’s new public access policy. The policy, which is open ...