Proper handling of continuous variables is crucial in healthcare research, for example, within regression modelling for descriptive, explanatory, or predictive purposes. However, inadequate methods ...

After an extensive period of debate and examination of evidence about physician and anaesthesia associate roles, my review can provide clarity, says Gillian Leng It was a privilege to be asked by Wes ...

How positive you feel depends on your perspective (doi:10.1136/bmj-2025-084613).3 The rapid introduction of physician associates and anaesthesia associates was, in an era of self-inflicted damage, ...

Gillian Leng led NICE for 20 years and now serves as president of the Royal Society of Medicine. Her landmark review into physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs and AAs) proposes a new direction ...

Penny Dash’s review of patient safety in England has recommended major changes to the organisational landscape.1 National bodies will be abolished or merged, and strategic planning and coordination is ...

People living in the most deprived areas in England have longer waits for planned hospital care than those in less deprived areas, NHS data show.1 For the first time, NHS England has broken down ...

The UK government has unveiled its life sciences sector plan which includes proposals to speed up clinical trials, unlock NHS data for research, and cut red tape to help patients access new treatments ...

The BMA’s annual local medical committee conference in May passed a motion that international medical graduates should not be disadvantaged when applying for training posts.1 It also noted that ...

Mark, as he was known to his friends and patients, was a charismatic, eccentric, and much loved GP who served the population of Beechdale in Nottingham for 19 years. He came to the UK from the ...

As parliament continues to debate welfare reform and the two child benefit cap, thousands of children in the UK don’t have their own bed because their families can’t afford it. It’s a hidden public ...

John McKenzie Kennedy was born a twin in Aberdeen weighing 1.13 kg (2.5 lb). The family moved south to be closer to Southampton where his father was the captain of an oil tanker. John attended ...

That’s been the concern—which is why, for the past four decades, the UK has prohibited football supporters from drinking in the stands. But in Scotland at least, the ban is being lifted as part of a ...