How positive you feel depends on your perspective (doi:10.1136/bmj-2025-084613).3 The rapid introduction of physician associates and anaesthesia associates was, in an era of self-inflicted damage, ...

Gillian Leng led NICE for 20 years and now serves as president of the Royal Society of Medicine. Her landmark review into physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs and AAs) proposes a new direction ...

Both the BMA and the health and social care secretary Wes Streeting said talks on 17 July to try to avert strike action by resident doctors were “constructive.” It appears unlikely the government will ...