In an interview with The BMJ Banfield said that the current training system “is a mess” and “bears no relationship to the workforce needs.” He gave the example of there being just 400 anaesthetist ...

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Hospitals in England are being urged by a watchdog to learn from a trust’s “tragic” delayed diagnosis of a woman’s cancer that denied her time with her family. The office of the Parliamentary and ...

Despite major advances in artificial intelligence (AI) research for healthcare, the deployment and adoption of AI technologies remain limited in clinical practice. This paper describes the FUTURE-AI ...

Four fifths of the money spent in the UK on healthcare in people’s last year of life goes on hospital care, an analysis has found, underlining the urgent need to overhaul palliative care services and ...

The findings, published in the open access journal BMJ Mental Health, suggest that people generally wake up feeling in the best frame of mind in the morning but in the worst around midnight, with day ...

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A new comprehensive scientific review in BMJ Global Health lays out all the evidence across multiple sectors of women’s leadership in multinational settings—showing their effectiveness as leaders and ...

Online pharmacies in England, Wales, and Scotland will have to carry out stricter checks on people who are buying weight loss drugs, under new regulatory guidance. Pharmacists will no longer be able ...

AI presents some exciting opportunities for the NHS, but leaders need to drive the technology and not the other way round, reports Chris Stokel-Walker Artificial intelligence will be a gamechanger ...