“Doctors are more burnt-out and under pressure than ever before and now is not the time to cut mental health support.” Dr Latifa responds to the planned ending of new registrations with NHS Practitioner Health. Read the full statement: bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

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Dr Peter Tun died on 13 April 2020. Three weeks before his death, he warned Royal Berkshire hospital that unless they supplied the vital kit he and his colleagues needed to avoid becoming infected, “it will be too little and too late”. #COVID19
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We must act on the social determinants of health and place sustainability at the core of the NHS’s future to ensure a healthy society, argue experts in two new reports from The BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS

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Invited to address a conference in Berlin about my work in Gaza hospitals during the present conflict.
The German government has forcibly prevented me from entering the country
Silencing a witness to genocide before the ICJ adds to Germany's complicity in the ongoing massacre.

So Asthma + Lung UK asked 'what is the one thing that would improve the care of your COPD?
They said:
- Better healthcare access & support
- More effective treatments
- Address social, cultural & environmental factors that impact lung health
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Go see The Zone of Interest
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We've highlighted how key a COPD annual review is for patient report care. Using data from Asthma + Lung UK COPD patient passport. Anthony Laverty Dr Keir Philip Royal Brompton and Harefield NHLI Dr Nick Hopkinson
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I just returned from #Gaza for Medical Aid for Palestinians.
The scale of the suffering and humanitarian catastrophe inflicted by Israel is vast and horrific.
What is being done to the Palestinians of Gaza is a disaster for humanity.
History will judge all who are complicit.
#CeasefireNow

NEW STATEMENT | Sudan: A Year of War

With millions facing famine, diplomats should push the two main belligerents much harder to accept a ceasefire.
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Progress...

I think of this as the scheme that killed my mother.

427.03 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 09-Apr-2024 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

There is something new under the sun: Accredited professional medical education funded by the tobacco industry.

Exclusive: Outcry as Philip Morris International funds smoking cessation courses on Medscape The BMJ bmj.com/content/385/bm…