<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:prism="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/prism/" xmlns:syn="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:taxo="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/taxonomy/">

<channel rdf:about="http://www.bmj.com">
<title>Latest headlines from BMJ</title>
<link>http://www.bmj.com</link>
<description></description>
<prism:eIssn>1756-1833</prism:eIssn>
<prism:publicationName>BMJ</prism:publicationName>
<items>
 <rdf:Seq>
  <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100844.short?rss=1"/>
  <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100841.short?rss=1"/>
  <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100782.short?rss=1"/>
  <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100840.short?rss=1"/>
  <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100832.short?rss=1"/>
  <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100829.short?rss=1"/>
 </rdf:Seq>
</items>
<image rdf:resource="http://www.bmj.com/icons/site/logo.bmj.gif"/>
<xhtml:meta content="noindex" name="robots" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/></channel>
<image rdf:about="http://www.bmj.com/icons/site/logo.bmj.gif">
<title>BMJ</title>
<url>http://www.bmj.com/icons/site/logo.bmj.gif</url>
<link>http://www.bmj.com</link>
</image>
<item rdf:about="http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100844.short?rss=1">
<title><![CDATA[NHS winter planning: Penny Dash&#x2019;s &#x201C;groundhog day&#x201D; comments are &#x201C;admission of failure,&#x201D; doctors say]]></title>
<link>http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100844.short?rss=1</link>
<description><![CDATA[NHS England chair Penny Dash has been criticised after suggesting that winter planning for the months ahead will be “exactly the same” as previous years, despite concerns by doctors that such planning has been ineffective.Speaking at the King’s Fund on Tuesday 8 September, Dash, who took over as chair in April 2025, said, “We are about to have a paper come to the NHS England board on winter planning.“This will be my sixth year as an NHS chair, with exactly the same paper on winter planning coming to the board. We can’t just keep going in the same way.”Dash, previously chair of North West London Integrated Care Board (ICB), continued, “We know that we’ve got 40% of people turning up at A&E [hospital emergency departments] who don’t need to be in an A&E. We’ve got over 20% of emergency admissions who don’t need to be admitted to hospital.“We’re just in...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elisabeth Mahase]]></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-09-11T08:21:18-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:identifier>info:doi/10.1136/bmj-2026-100844</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier>hwp:master-id:bmj;bmj-2026-100844</dc:identifier>
<dc:publisher>BMJ Publishing Group Ltd</dc:publisher>
<dc:title><![CDATA[NHS winter planning: Penny Dash&#x2019;s &#x201C;groundhog day&#x201D; comments are &#x201C;admission of failure,&#x201D; doctors say]]></dc:title>
<prism:publicationDate>2026-09-11</prism:publicationDate>
<prism:section>News</prism:section>
<prism:volume>394</prism:volume>
<prism:issueIdentifier>sep11_8</prism:issueIdentifier>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100841.short?rss=1">
<title><![CDATA[Busiest ever summer for NHS prompts warning of doctor burnout]]></title>
<link>http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100841.short?rss=1</link>
<description><![CDATA[Clinicians and other healthcare staff are at serious risk of “burnout” in the wake of what has now been officially recognised as the busiest ever summer for the NHS in England.New performance data show that overall waiting lists have grown slightly and numbers of people attending hospital emergency (A&E) departments in England hit record numbers.1This has created what has been described as a “twin crisis” for the NHS in summer as well as in winter.The performance data show that A&E attendances in June, July, and August reached 7 268 445, the highest ever total for the summer period, and 241 061 (3.4%) more than in the same period last year (7 027 384).2NHS England said that despite five heatwaves between May and August the health service treated, admitted, or discharged the highest ever number of A&E patients within four hours (5 462 182) over this period.However, more patients were forced...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adrian O&#x2019;Dowd]]></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-09-11T08:11:31-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:identifier>info:doi/10.1136/bmj-2026-100841</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier>hwp:master-id:bmj;bmj-2026-100841</dc:identifier>
<dc:publisher>BMJ Publishing Group Ltd</dc:publisher>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Busiest ever summer for NHS prompts warning of doctor burnout]]></dc:title>
<prism:publicationDate>2026-09-11</prism:publicationDate>
<prism:section>News</prism:section>
<prism:volume>394</prism:volume>
<prism:issueIdentifier>sep11_7</prism:issueIdentifier>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100782.short?rss=1">
<title><![CDATA[Reframing the conversation on maternity safety]]></title>
<link>http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100782.short?rss=1</link>
<description><![CDATA[Titcombe reminds us that every avoidable maternal or neonatal death is a devastating tragedy.1 Bereaved families have exposed failures from which maternity services must learn. Their voices must remain central to reform. UK maternity inquiries23 identify system failures: inadequate staffing, poor leadership, ineffective communication and multidisciplinary working, delayed escalation, and failure to recognise and respond to maternal or fetal deterioration. In some cases, a determination to achieve vaginal birth contributed to harm. But these findings do not establish that supporting physiology is unsafe. They show what happens when organisational pressures, professional beliefs, or culture override clinical judgment and timely action.Safe care requires clinicians to understand physiological adaptation, detect emerging pathophysiology, and respond appropriately. Physiology is shaped by the care environment. Continuity, respect, and psychological safety can foster trust, communication, and responsiveness; fragmentation, fear, and chronic pressure can undermine the adaptive capacity of women, clinicians, and organisations.4 Healthcare is a complex...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carolyn Hastie]]></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-09-11T07:41:45-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:identifier>info:doi/10.1136/bmj-2026-100782</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier>hwp:master-id:bmj;bmj-2026-100782</dc:identifier>
<dc:publisher>BMJ Publishing Group Ltd</dc:publisher>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Reframing the conversation on maternity safety]]></dc:title>
<prism:publicationDate>2026-09-11</prism:publicationDate>
<prism:section>Letters</prism:section>
<prism:subsection1>Letter</prism:subsection1>
<prism:volume>394</prism:volume>
<prism:issueIdentifier>sep11_6</prism:issueIdentifier>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100840.short?rss=1">
<title><![CDATA[Hot drinks and oesophageal cancer: the facts behind the headlines]]></title>
<link>http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100840.short?rss=1</link>
<description><![CDATA[This week a study suggesting that very hot drinks can triple the risk of oesophageal cancer gained much attention in the media.1But how strong is the link, and should doctors be advising patients to avoid piping hot tea and coffee?What was the research, and what did it show?The study, funded by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and led by researchers from Oxford Population Health at the University of Oxford, examined data from around 980 000 adults by combining two large UK cohort studies: UK Biobank and the Million Women Study.If participants consumed hot drinks, participants were asked to report whether they typically drank them “very hot,” “hot,” or “warm.”The researchers then tracked participants’ health records for over 10 years to see whether they developed oesophageal cancer.The results, published in the International Journal of Cancer, show that 2348 oesophageal cancers were reported during this period: 1045 squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) and 1303...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Feinmann]]></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-09-11T07:06:44-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:identifier>info:doi/10.1136/bmj-2026-100840</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier>hwp:master-id:bmj;bmj-2026-100840</dc:identifier>
<dc:publisher>BMJ Publishing Group Ltd</dc:publisher>
<dc:subject><![CDATA[Oncology]]></dc:subject>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Hot drinks and oesophageal cancer: the facts behind the headlines]]></dc:title>
<prism:publicationDate>2026-09-11</prism:publicationDate>
<prism:section>News</prism:section>
<prism:volume>394</prism:volume>
<prism:issueIdentifier>sep11_5</prism:issueIdentifier>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100832.short?rss=1">
<title><![CDATA[Meningitis B risk reinforced by fresh data as students prepare to head to university]]></title>
<link>http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100832.short?rss=1</link>
<description><![CDATA[New data have highlighted the serious risks to young people from meningitis B, which was responsible for almost all invasive meningococcal disease cases in 15 to 24 year olds last year.The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) data show that meningitis B was responsible for 93 of 96 cases of invasive meningococcal disease cases in this age group in England during 2025 to 2026.The UKHSA’s Invasive Meningococcal Disease (IMD) Report for England also shows that the bacterium was the leading cause of meningococcal disease across almost all age groups under 25, including infants (34 of 37) and 1 to 4 year olds (35 of 35).1Overall, 26 deaths were recorded among the 348 confirmed cases of total invasive meningococcal disease during the year.An outbreak in March in Kent was linked to 21 cases in students and other young people in the Canterbury area, and this was followed by two further outbreaks in...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adrian O&#x2019;Dowd]]></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-09-11T04:36:54-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:identifier>info:doi/10.1136/bmj-2026-100832</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier>hwp:master-id:bmj;bmj-2026-100832</dc:identifier>
<dc:publisher>BMJ Publishing Group Ltd</dc:publisher>
<dc:subject><![CDATA[Infectious diseases]]></dc:subject>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Meningitis B risk reinforced by fresh data as students prepare to head to university]]></dc:title>
<prism:publicationDate>2026-09-11</prism:publicationDate>
<prism:section>News</prism:section>
<prism:volume>394</prism:volume>
<prism:issueIdentifier>sep11_4</prism:issueIdentifier>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100829.short?rss=1">
<title><![CDATA[Health bill: Government will &#x201C;review&#x201D; plans to abolish Healthwatch]]></title>
<link>http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100829.short?rss=1</link>
<description><![CDATA[The government could drop or modify plans to abolish Healthwatch England in order to retain an independent voice for patients, a minister has indicated.Karin Smyth, health minister, said that the government would review the plans to ensure that they “deliver for patients and service users,” after a debate on proposed amendments to the Health Bill this week.Healthwatch was launched in 2012 as a statutory independent voice of patients to ensure that the NHS at the national and local level is accountable to its users.The bill, published in May, set out plans to abolish Healthwatch England and local Healthwatch networks in their current form to “simplify the patient safety landscape.”12 But critics, including some MPs during the debate, have warned that the move risks removing a vital mechanism for giving patients and communities a say in decision making.3What did the minister say about Healthwatch’s future?MPs discussed4 two suggested amendments to the...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adrian O&#x2019;Dowd]]></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-09-11T03:26:55-07:00</dc:date>
<dc:identifier>info:doi/10.1136/bmj-2026-100829</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier>hwp:master-id:bmj;bmj-2026-100829</dc:identifier>
<dc:publisher>BMJ Publishing Group Ltd</dc:publisher>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Health bill: Government will &#x201C;review&#x201D; plans to abolish Healthwatch]]></dc:title>
<prism:publicationDate>2026-09-11</prism:publicationDate>
<prism:section>News</prism:section>
<prism:volume>394</prism:volume>
<prism:issueIdentifier>sep11_3</prism:issueIdentifier>
</item>
</rdf:RDF>