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Peer-Reviewed Journal (Clinical Trials) • BMJ Recent Research • 2026-10-30

Can This Approach Help? Inside the Latest Research on Thousands of patients automatically deleted from electronic referral service,

Patients waiting for specialist care were dropped off the electronic referral service (e-RS) without warning, a national safety watchdog has warned.A Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) report earlier this month found that from February to July

Read Plain-English Story | Formal Study: “Thousands of patients automatically deleted from electronic referral service, watchdog warns”

Rigor 94/100

Formal Study (PMID #BMJ-2017072469)

Peer-Reviewed Journal (Clinical Trials) • BMJ Recent Research • 2026-10-30

Can This Approach Help? Inside the Latest Research on Healthwatch: Plans to abolish patient watchdog are scrapped in government U

Ministers have scrapped plans to abolish Healthwatch England and local Healthwatch groups, after pushback from health leaders and organisations.Launched in 2012, Healthwatch functions as a statutory independent voice for patients, helping the public hold the N

Read Plain-English Story | Formal Study: “Healthwatch: Plans to abolish patient watchdog are scrapped in government U turn”

Rigor 92/100

Formal Study (PMID #BMJ-3904048857)

Peer-Reviewed Journal (Clinical Trials) • BMJ Recent Research • 2026-10-30

Can This Approach Help? Inside the Latest Research on Rama Shanker

bmj;395/oct30_11/e101174/F1F1f1Rama (known to many of his UK colleagues as “Ron”) was born in Bihar, India, in 1949. His father was an acclaimed general surgeon and, after Rama’s mother died suddenly, he was raised by his beloved second mother, a nurse. The el

Read Plain-English Story | Formal Study: “Rama Shanker Singh”

Rigor 89/100

Formal Study (PMID #BMJ-1447489705)

Peer-Reviewed Journal (Clinical Trials) • BMJ Recent Research • 2026-10-29

Can This Approach Help? Inside the Latest Research on Hundreds of GP websites crash after online provider enters

“Questions must be asked” about the lack of warning before hundreds of practice websites went offline after an online provider entered administration, GP leaders say.They have also questioned why there doesn’t seem to be a coordinated national contingency plan

Read Plain-English Story | Formal Study: “Hundreds of GP websites crash after online provider enters administration”

Rigor 97/100

Formal Study (PMID #BMJ-393919727)

Peer-Reviewed Journal (Clinical Trials) • BMJ Recent Research • 2026-10-29

Can This Approach Help? Inside the Latest Research on RCGP does U turn on policy that put assisted dying on par with arms

An “ethical policy” that prevented assisted dying campaign groups from hosting events at the Royal College of General Practitioners will be “reviewed and amended,” the college pledged today.This reversal comes after the campaign group Dignity in Dying was prev

Read Plain-English Story | Formal Study: “RCGP does U turn on policy that put assisted dying on par with arms dealers”

Rigor 94/100

Formal Study (PMID #BMJ-2116810576)