• More than two thirds of medical students cut down spending on essentials, survey finds
• Homeless people’s A&E visits treble in seven years
• Golden hellos have helped areas get more GPs
• A call to think about health rather than medicine
• Prevention is the role of governments, not health systems
• Some men who were unable to access PrEP through NHS trial are now HIV positive, charities report

More than two thirds of medical students cut down spending on essentials, survey finds

Seven out of 10 UK medical students are cutting down on essentials such as heating, food, or professional clothes in order to economise, a BMA survey has suggested.1Some 639 medical students were...

Homeless people’s A&E visits treble in seven years

The number of visits to hospital emergency departments by homeless people in England has almost trebled in seven years, an investigation by the BMA shows.1The analysis found that the number of...

Golden hellos have helped areas get more GPs

A scheme designed to attract trainee doctors to areas without enough GPs has been fully subscribed for the first time, NHS England has announced.The Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme, run by NHS...

A call to think about health rather than medicine

Marshall and colleagues? call to ?rethink medicine? is welcome, but it only half-heartedly tackles the fundamental problems dogging health services around the world.1 We need to rethink health, an...

Prevention is the role of governments, not health systems

We are told that prevention is at the heart of the long term plan for the NHS, published last week (doi:10.1136/bmj.l80; doi:10.1136/bmj.l85). This sounds like good news; prevention is, after all,...

Some men who were unable to access PrEP through NHS trial are now HIV positive, charities report

Large numbers of gay and bisexual men trying to access pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreP) against HIV infection through NHS England?s trial have been turned away because clinics have run out of places,...