The BMJPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1331
Alison Cox, Alessandro L Gallina, Karen Milton, Laurent Huber, Sonali Johnson, Antonis A Kousoulis, Samhita Kumar, Joseph Mucumbitsi, Johanna Ralston, Radhika Shrivastav, Julia Tainijoki, Martín Zemel
{"title":"The United Nations political declaration on non-communicable diseases and mental health needs a just and action driven approach","authors":"Alison Cox, Alessandro L Gallina, Karen Milton, Laurent Huber, Sonali Johnson, Antonis A Kousoulis, Samhita Kumar, Joseph Mucumbitsi, Johanna Ralston, Radhika Shrivastav, Julia Tainijoki, Martín Zemel","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1331","url":null,"abstract":"Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health conditions are responsible for more than 43 million deaths annually. It is critical that the upcoming United Nations general assembly high level meeting triggers decisive and sustained action on NCDs, says the World Health Organization Civil Society Working Group on NCDs The UN Secretary General’s Progress Report made clear that the world is off track to meet the 2030 target of a one third reduction in mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs).1 In response, the United Nations General Assembly will host a high level meeting in September, aiming to galvanise commitment to accelerate action. The meeting will culminate in a political declaration on NCDs and mental health. A “zero” draft of the political declaration is available for consultation with member states.2 The WHO Civil Society Working Group on NCDs, which includes more than 30 international Civil Society Organisations, has reviewed the zero draft against its own priorities for action, captured in its statement to the UN Multistakeholder Hearing.3 Our collective conclusion is clear. The political declaration must go further if it is to confront the urgency, scale of action, and accountability needed to stem the rising burden of NCDs and mental health conditions. It is encouraging that the draft includes three “fast track” targets and five indicators to support accelerating actions across areas including health promoting environments, primary healthcare, sustainable financing, governance, and data and …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520393","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 : 2025-06-30DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1335
Matthew E Berman
{"title":"The predicted—and predictable—brain drain is here","authors":"Matthew E Berman","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1335","url":null,"abstract":"Following the Trump administration’s systematic dismantling of the USA’s scientific enterprise,1 more than 1200 of the roughly 1600 respondents to a Nature survey reported that they were considering leaving the country.2 Many of these respondents were early career researchers. A recent analysis of the Nature Careers jobs platform echoes this sentiment: between January and March 2025, US scientists submitted 32% …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144516078","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 : 2025-06-30DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1354
Adrian O'Dowd
{"title":"Diversity in senior NHS roles increases but service \"must do better\" say leaders.","authors":"Adrian O'Dowd","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1354","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"637 1","pages":"r1354"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144521355","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 : 2025-06-30DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1361
Jacqui Wise
{"title":"Obesity plan puts onus on supermarkets to promote healthy food.","authors":"Jacqui Wise","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1361","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"27 1","pages":"r1361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144521360","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 : 2025-06-30DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1348
Jayne Kavanagh, Hayley Webb
{"title":"Parliament takes a historic step toward decriminalising abortion—but the work isn’t over","authors":"Jayne Kavanagh, Hayley Webb","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1348","url":null,"abstract":"The recent shake-up of abortion laws in England and Wales marks an important moment for abortion rights, but full decriminalisation remains essential, say Jayne Kavanagh and Hayley Webb We welcomed the passing of amendment NC1 in parliament on 17 June, which will put a stop to the criminalisation of anyone who ends their own pregnancy in England and Wales. This is a landmark step forward for reproductive rights and justice. In recent years, increasing numbers of women have been investigated and prosecuted under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act.1 This Victorian-era law was enacted before women even had the right to vote and carried a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for “unlawful abortion.” More than 100 women are believed to have been investigated since 2020 for allegedly ending or attempting to end their pregnancies outside the parameters of the 1967 Abortion Act, which set out legal exemptions for abortion.2 Many endured distressing and intrusive investigations, faced enormous legal costs, and suffered lasting psychological, financial, and reputational harm—repercussions that also deeply affected their families. The case of …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144516077","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 : 2025-06-30DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1353
Helen Salisbury
{"title":"Helen Salisbury: Payment for performance in general practice","authors":"Helen Salisbury","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1353","url":null,"abstract":"Has the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)—which pays GPs for recording processes and achieving clinical outcomes—led to improvements in patient care? This is the question that Ho and colleagues have tried to answer in their latest synthesis of the evidence.1 The system was introduced in 2004 and initially provided as much as a quarter of general practice income. Over the past 21 years the care indicators that are rewarded have changed, some being withdrawn and new ones introduced. This has provided a rich set of data to help identify whether incentivising specific elements of care will make them more likely to happen—and whether that improvement lasts when you stop paying. The way we look after patients with long term …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520354","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 : 2025-06-30DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1292
Erin Dean
{"title":"Why I . . . quilt","authors":"Erin Dean","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1292","url":null,"abstract":"Respiratory medicine consultant Kathryn Gow tells Erin Dean about how quilting can make order from chaos Constantly foraging and rescuing pieces of fabric led to Manchester based respiratory medicine consultant Kathryn Gow building up an impressive pile of scraps. Wondering what to do with them, she started cutting them into hexagons and gradually began creating her first patchwork quilt. “Any fabric that was lying around was fair game and got cut up,” Gow says. “Worn out jeans, tote bags, old clothes, tea towels, socks—anything that didn’t really have any other use.” Her first quilt took two years to complete, with Gow working on it in the evenings and weekends. “Quilting is quite an investment of time,” she says. “It wouldn’t take me that long now, but there’s a lot to learn at the beginning.” All the …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144516079","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 : 2025-06-30DOI: 10.1136/bmj.r1362
Kamala Thiagarajan
{"title":"India's organ donation programme falling short amid funding and staffing crises, says government report.","authors":"Kamala Thiagarajan","doi":"10.1136/bmj.r1362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1362","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"64 1","pages":"r1362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144521354","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}