Spotlight on the Communicate study: Northern Territory Health In the hospitals of the Northern Territory state of Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience poorer outcomes and higher rates of self-discharge than non-Indigenous patients. These disparities reflect the ongoing effects of colonisation, structural racism and communication ...
How connections made at the Quality Forum accelerated international change In 2020, Australia's largest public health service, Monash Health, began work to improve recognition of paediatric deterioration by partnering more closely with parents and families. A co-design process with consumers and clinicians resulted in a single proactive ...
BMJ Case Reports: spotlight on nutritional safety The BMJ Case Report, "Scurvy – a re-emerging disease with the rising cost of living and number of bariatric surgical procedures”, arose when a man in his early fifties presented to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Western Australia with a ...
Improving youth healthcare across Queensland, Australia The Queensland Clinical Senate is an advisory body for Queensland Health that brings clinicians together to examine how the health system is working in practice. At the Adolescent to Young Adult Care: Doing Better meeting in December 2020, clinicians were clear that ...
The BMJ 2025–26 appeal: supporting Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Gaza, Sudan and more than 70 countries worldwide. Please donate if you are able: https://msf.org.uk/bmj-annual-appeal-2025 Over the next eight weeks, The BMJ will be showcasing MSF’s extraordinary work through reporting, opinion articles, and photography. Our coverage will highlight teams ...
BMJ Group has partnered with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to strengthen how people and communities are involved in medical research. Varied Voices, a free online course developed by NIHR and supported by BMJ Learning, helps healthcare professionals understand how inclusion and diversity improve the ...
1 in 3 consultant jobs unfilled in some parts of the NHS, data shows £674m spent on locums in 2024/5 with negative effects on staff morale and patient care The NHS is reaching a crisis point in consultant recruitment as 1 in 3 consultant posts lie vacant in some parts ...
The BMJ publication paves the way for FDA qualification of an AI tool A groundbreaking study published in The BMJ in 2019, Prediction system for risk of allograft loss in patients receiving kidney transplants: international derivation and validation study, has laid the foundation for the iBox Scoring System: a powerful AI-driven ...
Expanding access to research in low and middle-income countries For over 20 years, BMJ Group has championed underrepresented voices in research. Since introducing full article processing charge (APC) waivers in 2022, we've granted 70% more waivers to authors from low and middle-income countries (LMICs) compared to the three ...
When Dr Clara Maarup Prip, a urologist and gynaecologist at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, encountered a rare case of kidney swelling (ureterohydronephrosis) caused by a menstrual cup, it was unlike anything she had seen before. The menstrual cup had been compressing the ureter where it enters the bladder, leading ...
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