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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twenty years of working in medicine is just long enough to realise how much things change and how little the core truths ever will. In 2004, in my first year as a doctor, we lived in a world defined ...

Anders Bach-Mortensen and colleagues examine how increasing reliance on out-of-pocket payments for adult social care has created a quality divide In July 2024, the UK government abandoned long awaited ...

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has said that it is treating an increasing number of children for measles, amid reports that a child died after contracting the infection.1 The Times reported that a ...

Dear Editor, We read with great interest the study by Ryser et al., which examined the cumulative incidence of ipsilateral invasive breast cancer in 1,780 women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) ...

Over 12 000 Gazans desperately need to be evacuated for medical care, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said in a plea to countries around the world to “open their doors” to evacuees. “As the genocide in ...