New models of care • Today, The BMJ carries the news that NHS England has announced 29 geographical sites to spearhead the new models of integrated care espoused in the […]
Editors at large
David Payne: How to be an academic social media star
Melissa Terras is the most downloaded academic in her faculty at UCL, and attributes her success to social media. Eight years ago Terras (pictured below), director of UCL’s Centre for […]
The BMJ Today: Politics and health, patients and professionals, and stalled drug trials
Here’s your Tuesday roundup: Politics and health • In an analysis article, David Hunter argues that, rather than exclude politics from health, we must embrace it if we are to […]
The BMJ Today: Geekiness, technology, and too few physicians
Inquisitive and geeky • Patrick Vallance, head of research and development at GlaxoSmithKline, is the subject of BMJ Confidential. Vallance says that his best career move was choosing to do […]
The BMJ Today: Freezing to death, childhood asthma, and TB screening
Here’s your Friday roundup: Cold homes and winter deaths • GPs should identify people living in cold homes and visit them once a year to assess their heating needs, says the […]
Tessa Richards: Big data—jam tomorrow
Rest easy in your beds overworked doctors and ailing patients, for tomorrow, all will be well. Big data will revolutionise healthcare. Processes in creaky health systems will be streamlined, patients […]
The BMJ Today: Cannabis, childhood depression, and winter pressures
Editorial: High potency cannabis In this editorial, Wayne Hall and Louise Degenhardt’s editorial discuss the recent research article published in Lancet Psychiatry that found daily use of “skunk” (a highly […]
BMJ Today: Overdetecting AAA and breast cancer, and how much do people care?
Overdiagnosis in screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm Johansson and colleagues discuss the assumptions and evidence behind such screening programmes, and call for a revisit of these programmes “because of reduced […]
The BMJ Today: Mortality rates, umbilical clamping, and penis length
Clinical review • Assessment and management of dementia Professor Helen C Kales and colleagues present a State of the Art Review on the assessment and management of dementia and introduce the DICE […]
The BMJ Today: The NHS, freedom to smoke, statistical refreshment, and the etymology of coughing
New today on thebmj.com What should the NHS look like after the election? The views of an eminent group of clinicians, policymakers, managers, and others can be heard in a […]