Matthew Limb

1 week ago | bmj.com | Matthew Limb

News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1282 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r1282 Three NHS workers are taking legal action against Barts Health NHS Trust in London over its new uniform and dress code policy and ban on displaying political symbols. They include a British Palestinian nurse who claims to have been ordered by bosses to remove a background video call image of a watermelon in a fruit bowl on the basis that it could be perceived as antisemitic.

1 week ago | bmj.com | Matthew Limb

News & ViewsSickle cell: Patients... Sickle cell: Patients face “systemic inequities” in care and research investment News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1274 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r1274 Persistent neglect of sickle cell disorder in the UK has led to a “breakdown in trust” among patients who continue to experience racism and substandard treatment, research has found.

2 weeks ago | bmj.com | Matthew Limb

News & ViewsNHS leaders say extra ... NHS leaders say extra £29bn a year is not enough to cut waiting times and modernise services News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1213 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r1213 Government spending on the NHS will rise by 3% a year after inflation over the next three years, slightly above what many in the health service were expecting.

3 weeks ago | bmj.com | Matthew Limb

News & ViewsEmergency care plan... Emergency care plan for England lacks ambition, say doctors’ leaders News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1184 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r1184 A £450m government plan to improve urgent and emergency care in England and avert a winter crisis could have shown more ambition in tackling longer waiting times, doctors’ leaders have said.

1 month ago | bmj.com | Matthew Limb

News & ViewsInaction on social... Inaction on social care is harming country and NHS, say MPs News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r912 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r912 The UK government is failing to measure the “true cost of inaction on social care” and the harms a broken system is causing to the country and the NHS, MPs have warned.