At the #mjaawards last week, our chair @shaunlintern.bsky.social spoke incredibly movingly about why we do what we do. See more detail and our list of winners on the MJA website. mjauk.org/2025/09/17/t...

Families face unfair ‘luck of the draw’ over NHS continuing healthcare decisions www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: An NHS doctor accused of sexually assaulting multiple patients, including children, while working in 2 hospital A&Es is expected to be charged within weeks after the conclusion of a 4-year police investigation www.thetimes.com/article/a3ac...

"We have received written advice from the CPS on submission of a case file, and all agencies continue to work collaboratively to enable a final charging decision to be made" -Staffordshire Police

Operation Anzu has seen hundreds of families sent letters by the NHS asking them to contact Staffordshire police, after a trawl of thousands of records for patients seen by this doctor:

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: An NHS doctor accused of sexually assaulting multiple patients, including children, while working in 2 hospital A&Es is expected to be charged within weeks after the conclusion of a 4-year police investigation www.thetimes.com/article/a3ac...

UK doctors who are guilty of sexual misconduct are not being appropriately sanctioned due to weak disciplinary processes, research reveals. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The number of people providing 35 hours or more a week of unpaid care increased from 1.1 million in 2003/04 to 1.9 million in 2023/24. New requests for support increased from 1.8 million in 2015/16 to 2.1 million in 2023/24, mainly from working age adults www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

One of the best things in the Hillsborough Law Bill is not the duty of candour on public officials, as welcome as that is, but news that bereaved families will have publicly funded legal representation at inquests. Finally an equality of arms that's been lacking for so long

Another maternity inquiry wholly focused on care delivered on labour wards. The policies and targets set for those trusts by DHSC, NHS England, and their response to concerns is conspicuously absent.

I'm glad to see my local trust will be reviewed as part of the national maternity investigation. I have been supporting a family harmed in the trust and they deserve a full review and, more importantly, action to change the culture and operations of the service.

14 NHS trusts to be focus of national maternity investigation are named www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Heading to Manchester for @events.hsj.co.uk Patient Safety Congress - two days of full on discussion of all things safety & quality. I'm looking to forward to Penny Dash keynote tomorrow, @marydixonwoods.bsky.social challenging keynote panel & Dr Matt Morgan delivering the James Reason lecture

My last big harvest of the year

National mental health director Claire Murdoch resigns with immediate effect claiming political pressure for a new person...her resignation letter....👀

Britain will be one of the first countries in the world to get a fat-busting once-a-day pill next year, the boss of @EliLillyandCo told me. He also revealed hopes of a "once-and-done" treatment for obesity: Full story: www.thetimes.com/article/9565...

The doctor quoted by Dr Aseem Malhotra in his speech today was listed in 2020 as having a financial interest in a rival Covid vaccine and company.

Given importance of health to the voting public, it seems politically naive of Nigel Farage and Reform to have their health policy so closely tied to Dr Aseem Malhotra, whose speech today confirms his switch from once respected clinician to conspiracy theorist quack: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Reform platforms vaccine sceptic at party conference www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

"You know what you want to do, you know what you want to say, but you can’t. Your body is dying day by day, bit by bit, and you have no control over what direction it takes" #MND www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Medicines watchdog tells The Sunday Times paying more for drugs risks starving hospitals of cash for nurses and other treatments. But @Novartis international head says times up for Britain's penny-pinching on drugs. Full story: www.thetimes.com/article/2e5d...

"We will have to make clear calls on where we launch [drugs] first. It may mean that patients will get later access to innovation, or maybe they don’t get access" - @novartis.bsky.social international president Patrick Horber warns the UK.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Medicines watchdog tells The Sunday Times paying more for drugs risks starving hospitals of cash for nurses and other treatments. But @Novartis international head says times up for Britain's penny-pinching on drugs. Full story: www.thetimes.com/article/2e5d...

🚨 Baby dies of whooping cough as childhood vaccinations fall www.thetimes.com/article/196a...

Baby dies of whooping cough as childhood vaccinations continue to fall #TomorrowsPapersToday

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds of laboratory staff at the UK’s largest private pathology centre are to go on strike, causing widespread disruption to NHS and private hospitals: www.thetimes.com/article/50e4...

"It should not take the government this long to respond. Every day’s delay intensifies the harm caused to these patients who have been harmed by the healthcare system" - @pscommissioner.bsky.social

NHS pays hospitals £33 per patient they remove from waiting lists. Thousands have been deleted. While this could be valid in most cases, there are fears it could lead to mistakes and the process lacks transparency: www.thetimes.com/article/d718...

"It seems to me only appropriate and necessary for the government to acknowledge unambiguously that compensation is due," says John Glenn MP adding: "There’s a lot of suffering going on here and I’m dismayed by the lateness of any meaningful response. It’s just not good enough.”

🚨 Exclusive: Pioneering world-first gene therapy @GreatOrmondSt has cured a teenager's rare genetic condition that had blighted his life. Now GOSH is hoping to be licensed to deliver more gene therapies for other rare diseases. Amazing story: www.thetimes.com/article/aff0...

In 2022, The Sunday Times found that thousands of pregnant women took sodium valproate in a scandal that’s been called worse than thalidomide. Three years on, calls for compensation have been met with silence

🚨 Disabled by a drug, ignored ny ministers, these children have been abandoned: www.thetimes.com/article/bb7f...

Very proud to be chair of the @mja-uk.bsky.social today and to see some of the quality journalism by our many members on display here. Hundreds more entered besides. Thanks to our independent judges. Also chuffed to have sneaked in myself here or there. #mjaawards

What an absolute bin fire this whole thing is. Months now of uncertainty and poor staff morale with no end in sight. As I read this from my holiday sunbed I am seriously considering just not coming back at all.

Sometimes, you just need your teddy bear

Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to overhaul the NHS has been thrown into chaos after no money has been set aside to cover the costs of making thousands of redundancies at ICBs www.thetimes.com/article/14b7...

Will they never learn? Reorganisation of NHS structures and management rarely delivers expected benefits or savings, but instead caused ‘redisorganisation’, as @kieranwalshe.bsky.social David Hunter I wrote about for @bmj.com in 2001…. www.bmj.com/content/323/...

Services for patients thrown into limbo include special educational needs, emergency planning, safeguarding services and Continuijg Healthcare - where the NHS provides community care for people with long term conditions like motor neurone disease.

Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to overhaul the NHS has been thrown into chaos after no money has been set aside to cover the costs of making thousands of redundancies at ICBs www.thetimes.com/article/14b7...

Just announced - @smhopkins.bsky.social will be the new chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social. Starting in September.

There have been 41 cases of botulism between 4 June and 6 August linked to unlicensed botox-like products according to the @ukhsa.bsky.social

At least the government has implemented all the recommendations from the Paterson inquiry as it looks to send more NHS patients private....oh wait, it hasn't at all.

A surgeon who performed unnecessary bowel operations using artificial mesh on more than 200 patients - leaving dozens in agony - has been struck off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The key story that Shaun highlights is the desperate need for, but the prohibitive costs of building repair and maintenance within the NHS. I worry about the suggestion of turning to PFI to fund repairs…

I had my whole genome sequenced to tell me my risk of developing certain diseases, with sobering results: www.thetimes.com/article/58ff...

🚨 Surgical staff at @greatormondst.bsky.social were forced to use torch light from their mobile phones in a power cut during surgery on a child: www.thetimes.com/article/c1d6...

The latest monthly update on measles cases in England shows 145 new cases since July 3. Cases continue to be in children under the age of 10 with London and parts of the North West driving the increases.

Deaths from measles - newly updated this morning to include the child who died recently in Liverpool and an adult who has also died from the long term effects of measles:

The BMA refused 18 requests for derogations from strikes on safety grounds, says NHS England's Sir Jim Mackey. He says in half of those, the BMA said it would approve them but only if "extortionate pay rates" were offered to striking docs:

"If the tools exist to put out misinformation, the tools also exist for us to put out accurate information and we need to do better. It's up to us to win the war here..." - Prof Adam Finn