This year has seen a double dose of optimism in the field of HIV prevention. First, on 20 June 2024, came the results of the Purpose-1 trial in South Africa and Uganda.1 This randomised controlled ...

Creating workplace boundaries can be extremely challenging.1 Most of us go into the profession because we want to help others, and throughout training we are often rewarded when we overextend ...

Rimmer reports four doctors’ views on saying no to patients.1 The reasons for medicine becoming a service industry are the lack of time and potential extra workload associated with requests from ...

The Labour government has an opportunity to not only reverse the harmful immigration legislation introduced by the previous government, but implement reforms to protect the mental health of those ...

Rimmer discusses ways to tackle the difficulties that doctors face in refusing to fully satisfy their patients’ needs and desires.1 Perhaps we should not say “no,” but “why?” Exploring patients’ ideas ...

The maternal death rate in the UK is at its highest for 20 years, with thrombosis and thromboembolism the leading cause of death, according to a major report. The latest MBRRACE-UK report, Saving ...

When trusted professionals speak up, people listen Over the past century, Earth’s average temperature has risen by more than 1.3°C, a clear sign that something is wrong. Ambient temperatures are ...

The BMA has offered financial support to a family that is pursuing a legal challenge against the General Medical Council over how it distinguishes between doctors and physician associates. In the ...

Physician associates (PAs) must only see patients in general practice who have been triaged by a GP and only undertake work delegated to them, and agreed with, their named GP supervisor, says new ...

A doctor who became close friends with Lucy Letby when they worked together was “misled and maybe manipulated” by the nurse, he told the public inquiry into her crimes. Named only as Dr U, he was the ...

Large language models have the potential to enhance equitable access to health information, but their poor performance in some languages could exacerbate the digital divide in healthcare, say Arthur ...

Increasing the use of vaccines could help tackle the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by reducing the need for antibiotics by 22% globally—or 2.5 billion defined daily doses—every year ...