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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Consultant colorectal surgeon Ling Wong talks to Kathy Oxtoby about the complex surgery he performs—and how it’s important to find hope in every situation “I’m the type of person who doesn’t give up ...

As the Precision Public Health Asia conference approaches, Kent Buse and colleagues caution that the specialty risks becoming a high tech fix for deeply political problems In The Time Machine by HG ...