The BMJPub Date : 2025-07-18DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1514
Graham Martin, Jane O’Hara
{"title":"Hope over experience? Patient and staff voice in the NHS after the Dash review","authors":"Graham Martin, Jane O’Hara","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1514","url":null,"abstract":"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 to be led by a newly reinvigorated National Quality Board. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will take on some functions vacated by the agencies being disbanded, while at a local level, NHS trusts and integrated care boards (ICBs) will assume increased responsibility for managing, monitoring, and improving quality and safety, overseen by CQC.1 The issues identified by Dash are real, and few will disagree with her assessment of the current environment. The response to patient safety problems has been the creation of multiple agencies with safety in their remit. They in turn have generated large numbers of poorly coordinated recommendations that represent a huge burden for NHS organisations.23 Scope creep has exacerbated the problem and Dash argues that attention to safety has come at the expense of other aspects of quality yet resulted in little tangible improvement.1 Rationalisation therefore seemed an inevitable …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144652309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2025-07-18DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1515
Jacqui Wise
{"title":"Patients in most deprived areas likely to have longer waits for care, data suggest.","authors":"Jacqui Wise","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1515","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"10 1","pages":"r1515"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144664155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2025-07-18DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1520
Jeffrey K Aronson
{"title":"When I use a word . . . \"Publish or perish\": collocates reflect attitudes.","authors":"Jeffrey K Aronson","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1520","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"18 1","pages":"r1520"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144664314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2025-07-18DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1401
Sally Howard
{"title":"Bed poverty: Effects on child health—and the doctor’s role","authors":"Sally Howard","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1401","url":null,"abstract":"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 health crisis, writes Sally Howard , that doctors can help to solve “I have only recently thought to ask about it,” says Josh Meek, a GP partner working in a deprived region of Sheffield, speaking of patients’ sleeping arrangements. Published in September 2024, a report by the children’s charity Buttle UK on the state of child poverty highlighted the growing crisis of bed poverty: children going without beds because their families cannot afford them.1 This is an important concern, says its chief executive, Joseph Howes, because research shows that sleep has an important role in brain development and that children who lose as little as one hour of sleep a night can lose up …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144652148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2025-07-18DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1467
Aravind Ponnuswamy
{"title":"Arumugam Nallasivan","authors":"Aravind Ponnuswamy","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1467","url":null,"abstract":"Arumugam Nallasivan, fondly known as Nally to his colleagues, graduated from Stanley Medical College in Chennai, India, and completed medical training in hospitals across the north of England. From his first day as consultant geriatrician at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2010, his dedication to patient care and unwavering commitment to advancing medical practice left a profound impact on colleagues and patients. Nally played a …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144652310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2025-07-18DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1438
Yin Shiong Choong
{"title":"NHS needs a balanced recruitment and retention strategy","authors":"Yin Shiong Choong","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1438","url":null,"abstract":"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 general practitioner (GP) trainees were unable to get jobs on completion of training.2 The BMA has warned the government that …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144652147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2025-07-18DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1510
Jacqui Wise
{"title":"UK launches plan to speed up clinical trials and improve access to new treatments.","authors":"Jacqui Wise","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1510","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"95 1","pages":"r1510"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144664154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2025-07-17DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1446
Paula H B Bolton-Maggs
{"title":"Blood transfusion safety: correct patient identification is essential","authors":"Paula H B Bolton-Maggs","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1446","url":null,"abstract":"Vickers and colleagues’ recommendation to implement electronic blood management systems for transfusion safety is timely.1 Most reports made to the UK haemovigilance scheme, Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT), each year are “near miss wrong blood in tube” (NM-WBIT) incidents—where the blood in the tube is not that of the patient named on the tube—which accounted for 986 of 3833 reports in 2023.2 Most cases are detected …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144645595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}