Proper handling of continuous variables is crucial in healthcare research, for example, within regression modelling for descriptive, explanatory, or predictive purposes. However, inadequate methods ...

After an extensive period of debate and examination of evidence about physician and anaesthesia associate roles, my review can provide clarity, says Gillian Leng It was a privilege to be asked by Wes ...

Wes Streeting, the UK’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, commissioned Gillian Leng to undertake an independent review of physician associates and anaesthesia associates. The rationale, ...

The roles of physician associate (PA) and anaesthesia associate (AA) should not be abolished but be renamed “physician assistants” and “physician assistants in anaesthesia,” Gillian Leng’s independent ...

Partha Kar, a Royal College of Physicians (RCP) councillor, has said that the college’s lack of a whistleblower policy left him with “no alternative” but to breach its rules and considers its plan to ...

More than a quarter of medical trainees in some specialties reported feeling apprehensive or hesitant about escalating a patient to the supervising clinician, a “deeply troubling” finding that the ...

As the NHS faces one of the most turbulent periods of its history, the BMA has elected a new chair. Rebecca Coombes spoke to him about his vision and priorities and whether the association will change ...