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Mashup Score: 11AI has potential, but it won’t save us on its own - 2 hour(s) ago
Twenty years ago, one of the London bomb attacks of 7/7 was on a bus passing the headquarters of the BMA (doi:10.1136/bmj.r1416).1 Staff from the BMA and The BMJ helped with the emergency response. It was a time of fear of further attacks, but we took for granted the capacity of the emergency services and the health system to respond. It was also a time of optimism in the future of the NHS. That optimism has evaporated. The question now is how to save the NHS in a digitally advanced world. The constant expansion of digital technology, particularly artificial intelligence, won’t necessarily save healthcare. Yet this is the big bet in England’s new 10 year health plan (doi:10.1136/bmj.r1394 doi:10.1136/bmj.r1405).23 The inevitable rise of algorithms means, the plan’s authors imagine, that we’ll achieve the productivity benefit of more healthcare delivered by fewer health professionals. This sounds good in …
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Mashup Score: 0What support do young carers find helpful? - 3 hour(s) ago
Stevens M, Brimblecombe N, Gowen S, Skyer R, Moriarty J. Young carers’ experiences of services and support: What is helpful and how can support be improved? PLOS One 2024;19:e0300551. To read the full NIHR Alert, go to:
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What support do young carers and their families find helpful and how could services better meet their needs? https://t.co/MIGNjkMwHW
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Mashup Score: 6How can a portfolio career boost my wellbeing? - 4 hour(s) ago
Many doctors are turning to portfolio careers to reduce burnout and improve morale, Elisabeth Mahase hears Patrice Baptiste, portfolio GP, says, “My portfolio career was born out of a desperate need to keep my non-clinical interests alive. I burnt out as a foundation doctor and like many trainees I decided I needed a break and took a year out of training. I seriously considered leaving medicine as I struggled immensely with the thought of returning to full time clinical training in the NHS. “I explored other non-clinical roles and was offered a job in medical writing—but I turned it down because I realised that I still wanted to pursue a medical career. I decided that I would return to full time training as a GP and maintain my interests in my spare time. “Portfolio careers can help to reduce burnout and improve work-life balance, in addition to creating additional income streams—which all contributes to wellbeing. For me, writing was therapeutic; I started during my time out of traini
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“My portfolio career was born out of a desperate need to keep my non-clinical interests alive." Many doctors are turning to portfolio careers to reduce burnout and improve morale, @emahase_ hears https://t.co/mZoJRcukMK
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Recruitment systems will continue to evade responsibility to their applicants unless they face financial consequences, write Elgan Manton-Roseblade and Callum Williams Postgraduate medical recruitment needs accountability, but doctors in the UK are trapped in a national system that is devoid of it. The UK’s allocation system for the foundation programme, which is responsible for the jobs of almost 10 000 new doctors every year, is littered with errors and contractual breaches: errors that any other organisation would consider an institutional failure, but the NHS accepts. New UK medical graduates have only one professional employment option. As they graduate with just provisional GMC registration, they must work in the foundation programme to practise medicine in the UK. Allocation to this programme is dictated by preference and a randomly generated rank. Applicants apply in the autumn, get their job details in April, and start work in August. But hundreds of medics don’t get their job
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Postgraduate medical recruitment needs accountability, but doctors in the UK are trapped in a national system that is devoid of it, say @Elgan_MR and @cmwilliams99. This will continue unless there are financial consequences for ducking accountability https://t.co/Pa1x5nqcoU
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A BMJ investigation finds more than 90 deals between brands of food or drink that is high in fat, salt, or sugar and sporting entities, amid concerns over such sponsorship’s impact on the UK’s obesity crisis. Sophie Borland reports Junk food companies have a broad presence across top level UK sport with sponsorship deals that public health experts say undermine government efforts to curb junk food advertising and tackle the UK’s obesity crisis. The BMJ has found more than 90 current partnerships that top British sporting stars, teams, and organisations have with companies and brands that sell food or drink that is high in fat, salt, or sugar (HFSS). The brands include Cadbury, PepsiCo, KP Snacks, Walkers, and Kellogg’s; the deals are most prolific in football but extend across at least six of the UK’s other most popular sports, including cycling, golf, and cricket. As the 2025 UEFA women’s football championship kicks off in Switzerland this month, this investigation finds that female f
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Junk food firms have more than 90 current sponsorship deals within top UK sports amid growing concerns over their impact on public health, finds a BMJ investigation. @Food_Foundation @DoctorChrisVT @SoilAssociation @OHA_updates https://t.co/CVenoYOrCu
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Mashup Score: 8No-touch versus conventional vein in coronary artery bypass grafting: three year follow-up of multicentre randomised PATENCY trial - 1 day(s) ago
Objective To assess the three year outcomes of the no-touch vein harvesting technique in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery compared with the conventional approach. Design Three year extended follow-up of the randomised PATENCY (graft patency between the no-touch vein harvesting technique and conventional approach in coronary artery bypass graft surgery) trial. Setting Seven cardiac surgery centres in China; enrolment between April 2017 and June 2019. Participants 2655 participants aged 18 and older undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. Interventions Patients were randomly assigned 1:1 to the no-touch vein harvesting technique group or the conventional approach group during surgery and followed up. Main outcome measures Vein graft occlusion (based on computed tomography angiography) at three years. Results Mean age of participants was 61 years (standard deviation ±8 years) and 22% were women. 99.4% (2621) attended the three year follow-up visit, while 86.5%
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No-touch vein harvesting reduces the risk of graft failure up to three years after coronary artery bypass surgery compared with conventionally harvested vein grafts, finds this study https://t.co/Zj4EMDRNFr
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Mashup Score: 10
India’s medical regulatory authority has eased faculty recruitment rules to expand the pool of eligible teachers for medical colleges. But the move has drawn criticism from some, who warn that it could dilute academic standards and undermine education. On 5 July the National Medical Commission (NMC) announced revised regulations to allow specialists with 10 years’ experience to become associate professors and those with two years’ experience to become assistant professors, without completing the currently mandated three year senior residency. Such appointees must, however, complete a basic course in biomedical research within two years. The revisions also allow postgraduate diploma holders with six years’ experience as medical officers or specialists in government institutions recognised as teaching centres to become assistant professors. Additionally, medical colleges may now start postgraduate courses with two …
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India’s medical regulatory authority has eased faculty recruitment rules to expand the pool of eligible teachers for medical colleges. But the move has drawn criticism from some, who warn that it could dilute academic standards and undermine education https://t.co/WSEQ2GPPf6
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Mashup Score: 25
A BMJ investigation finds more than 90 deals between brands of food or drink that is high in fat, salt, or sugar and sporting entities, amid concerns over such sponsorship’s impact on the UK’s obesity crisis. Sophie Borland reports Junk food companies have a broad presence across top level UK sport with sponsorship deals that public health experts say undermine government efforts to curb junk food advertising and tackle the UK’s obesity crisis. The BMJ has found more than 90 current partnerships that top British sporting stars, teams, and organisations have with companies and brands that sell food or drink that is high in fat, salt, or sugar (HFSS). The brands include Cadbury, PepsiCo, KP Snacks, Walkers, and Kellogg’s; the deals are most prolific in football but extend across at least six of the UK’s other most popular sports, including cycling, golf, and cricket. As the 2025 UEFA women’s football championship kicks off in Switzerland this month, this investigation finds that female f
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Junk food firms have more than 90 current sponsorship deals within top UK sports amid growing concerns over their impact on public health, finds a BMJ investigation. @Food_Foundation @DoctorChrisVT @SoilAssociation @OHA_updates https://t.co/CVenoYOrCu
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Mashup Score: 11Scarlett McNally: We can’t rely on the robots to fix the NHS - 2 day(s) ago
I’m currently taking a few weeks away from my work as a surgeon, recovering from a hip replacement. My surgery was robot assisted and the results are astonishing. Evidence on robot assisted surgery shows shorter hospital stays and fewer complications.1 They seem to work particularly well with patients who have obesity or complex medical problems where physical access is difficult.2 As part of the NHS 10 year plan, Wes Streeting, secretary of state for health and social care, plans to expand robotic surgery in the NHS.3 Despite some of the benefits of robot surgery, I am saddened by his suggestion of penalising hospitals that do not use this technology. Services based on robots require a huge amount of capital investment and ongoing funding, training, space, time, personnel, …
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As part of the NHS 10 year plan, Wes Streeting plans to expand robotic surgery. We can’t simply rely on robots to fix the NHS, writes @scarlettmcnally https://t.co/2AbrFiFPPb
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Mashup Score: 32
Recruitment systems will continue to evade responsibility to their applicants unless they face financial consequences, write Elgan Manton-Roseblade and Callum Williams Postgraduate medical recruitment needs accountability, but doctors in the UK are trapped in a national system that is devoid of it. The UK’s allocation system for the foundation programme, which is responsible for the jobs of almost 10 000 new doctors every year, is littered with errors and contractual breaches: errors that any other organisation would consider an institutional failure, but the NHS accepts. New UK medical graduates have only one professional employment option. As they graduate with just provisional GMC registration, they must work in the foundation programme to practise medicine in the UK. Allocation to this programme is dictated by preference and a randomly generated rank. Applicants apply in the autumn, get their job details in April, and start work in August. But hundreds of medics don’t get their job
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Postgraduate medical recruitment needs accountability, but doctors in the UK are trapped in a national system that is devoid of it, say @Elgan_MR and @cmwilliams99. This will continue unless there are financial consequences for ducking accountability https://t.co/Pa1x5nqcoU
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"The constant expansion of digital technology, particularly artificial intelligence, won’t necessarily save healthcare. Yet this is the big bet in England’s new 10 year health plan." @KamranAbbasi in Editor's Choice https://t.co/hBZkxVYI9t