Intended for healthcare professionals

  1. Campaigns
  2. Campaigns

Campaigns

Divestment from fossil fuels

The BMJ’s campaign for divestment from fossil fuels is aimed at health professionals and medical organisations, since divestment is one way of exerting influence on politicians and industry on behalf of our patients and the public. We seek your commitment and invite you to sign our online declaration of intent to divest from fossil fuels (below). We urge you to follow up your commitment by implementing divestment in your personal finances and in the medical organisations that you belong to.

Latest campaigns

Wellbeing

The BMJ has long championed the wellbeing of doctors, both for their own sake and the sake of their patients. We have pulled together an online collection of articles published in the past few years, including recent articles on the importance of staff engagement, how to deal with a bullying colleague and optimising sleep for night shifts. Future articles will look at the issues affecting doctors’ physical and psychological health, both in and outside of work.

Climate emergency

Climate emergency

In October 2014 The BMJ called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a public health emergency on climate change. Putting climate change at the top of the list of things to worry about is hard when faced with the daily challenges of clinical care, but it poses a greater risk to human health than either communicable of non-communicable disease.

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Open Data

Hidden clinical trial data are systematically undermining doctors’ abilities to prescribe treatment with confidence. A whole range of widely used drugs across all fields of medicine have been represented as safer and more effective than they are, endangering people’s lives and wasting public money. As of January 2013, the BMJ will no longer publish any trial of drugs or devices where the authors do not commit to making the relevant anonymised patient level data available, upon reasonable request.