22 March 2025(vol 388, issue 8459)

This Week

• NHS England: divorced, beheaded, died

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r555 (Published 20 March 2025)

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• NHS England: Government abolishes quango that “delivered less care at huge cost”

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r521 (Published 13 March 2025)

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• Medical news in brief: Legal threat over MRCP error, new endometriosis pill, sexual assault referrals rise, and other stories

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r530 (Published 20 March 2025)

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• BMA accuses London trusts of “colluding” to keep doctors’ pay low

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r496 (Published 11 March 2025)

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• Sixty seconds on . . . slushies

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r523 (Published 14 March 2025)

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• Cuts to England’s integrated care boards must not derail GP investment, say leaders

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r531 (Published 14 March 2025)

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• WHO warns “measles is back” as virus spreads across Europe, America, and Afghanistan

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r528 (Published 14 March 2025)

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• Gambling firm is blocked from opening outlet after public health director’s intervention

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r509 (Published 12 March 2025)

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• Level of discrimination experienced by NHS staff in England reached five year high in 2024

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r542 (Published 17 March 2025)

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• Why is NHS England being abolished, and what’s next?

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r535 (Published 17 March 2025)

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• Letby case: Criminal investigation is widened to focus on individual staff

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r538 (Published 17 March 2025)

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• Stroke care: Can triage technologies reverse stalled progress?

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r500 (Published 11 March 2025)

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• The day the world changed

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r551 (Published 19 March 2025)

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• After USAID: what now for aid and Africa?

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r479 (Published 11 March 2025)

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• Trends in UK mortality reflect a public health failure

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r525 (Published 18 March 2025)

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• NHS has finally agreed to share GP patient data for research—this is why

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r501 (Published 13 March 2025)

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• Will the next president of the Royal College of Physicians bring the change its members want?

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r483 (Published 12 March 2025)

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• Why I . . . make my own clothes

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r363 (Published 11 March 2025)

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• How can I boost team morale?

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r444 (Published 17 March 2025)

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Research

• Physician associates and anaesthetic associates in UK: rapid systematic review of recent UK based research

  BMJ 2025; 388 :e084613 (Published 07 March 2025)

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• The role of physician associates in the NHS

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r437 (Published 07 March 2025)

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• Systematic reviews of non-RCT evidence: building dry stone walls

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r441 (Published 07 March 2025)

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• Physician associates want their profession to have appropriate regulation and oversight

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r472 (Published 07 March 2025)

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• Sonolysis during carotid endarterectomy: randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2025; 388 :e082750 (Published 19 March 2025)

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• Therapeutic ultrasound during carotid endarterectomy

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r385 (Published 19 March 2025)

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• Late adverse event reporting from medical device manufacturers to the US Food and Drug Administration: cross sectional study

  BMJ 2025; 388 :e081518 (Published 12 March 2025)

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Comment

• Partha Kar: The RCP leadership elections are an opportunity for a fresh start

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r519 (Published 17 March 2025)

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• Abolishing NHS England: risks and opportunities

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r553 (Published 18 March 2025)

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• Rammya Mathew: Abolishing NHS England is a reckless gamble with uncertain returns

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r536 (Published 17 March 2025)

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• Helen Salisbury: Goodbye to NHS England

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r524 (Published 14 March 2025)

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• David Oliver: Abolishing NHS England is no panacea for the NHS’s woes

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r526 (Published 17 March 2025)

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• Labour government scraps NHS England

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r537 (Published 18 March 2025)

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• Deadly disease outbreaks in Africa underscore the need for US WHO membership

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r423 (Published 05 March 2025)

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• Being reckless with public health is an efficient way to cause outbreaks

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r455 (Published 10 March 2025)

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• Losing touch with NHS reality: government on trajectory to two tier service

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r345 (Published 27 February 2025)

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• Regional and national disparities in bed numbers are stark

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r278 (Published 10 February 2025)

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• Prevention and a community focus are integral to general practice

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r285 (Published 14 February 2025)

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• We need a functioning national illness service

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r281 (Published 11 February 2025)

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• Sacrificing population health for the medical industry: a distortion of priorities

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r388 (Published 04 March 2025)

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• Prevention in primary care: more of the same is not the answer

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r413 (Published 05 March 2025)

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• Severing the link between gambling advertising and harm

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r443 (Published 06 March 2025)

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• Screening for multiple cancers: evaluation must go beyond aggregate measures

  BMJ 2025; 388 :e081098 (Published 25 February 2025)

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Education

• Treating bacterial vaginosis … and other research

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r482 (Published 20 March 2025)

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• Multiple crusting plaques on the face secondary to burn injury

  BMJ 2025; 388 :e082314 (Published 20 March 2025)

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• Surgical treatments for obesity . . . and other stories

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r485 (Published 20 March 2025)

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• Identification, assessment, and management of gambling-related harms: summary of NICE guideline

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r323 (Published 11 March 2025)

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• Tackling gambling harm requires a public health approach

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r447 (Published 11 March 2025)

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• Offer me hope to overcome gambling harm

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r331 (Published 11 March 2025)

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• Assessment and management of dengue

  BMJ 2025; 388 :e082639 (Published 18 March 2025)

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• Urinary problems in men: self-management advice is helpful

  BMJ 2025; 388 :q2660 (Published 20 March 2025)

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• A woman with enlarged hands and feet

  BMJ 2025; 388 :e083320 (Published 20 March 2025)

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Obituaries

• Peter Lyn Hays

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r398 (Published 27 February 2025)

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• Ronald Martin Oliver

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r280 (Published 13 February 2025)

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• Andrew Oldrey Russell

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r405 (Published 28 February 2025)

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• Geoffrey Robert Thompson

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r400 (Published 27 February 2025)

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• Jeremy Bradshaw-Smith: GP who pioneered computerised medical records and is thought to have produced the world’s first printed prescription

  BMJ 2024; 387 :q2702 (Published 04 December 2024)

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• Allison John: GP with cystic fibrosis who campaigned on organ donation

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r213 (Published 04 February 2025)

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