Neonatal BCG: a time for change.

The BCG vaccination programme in the UK is risk based and has usually been given to eligible babies soon after birth. On advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, NHS England and Improvement recently revised the timing of this vaccination to 28 days after birth or soon thereafter. In this article, we highlight the change in timing of vaccination, the rationale and barriers to BCG uptake that this change may pose.

Promoting evidence-based practice through peer teaching: Practical tips to run a departmental teaching program in a healthcare setting.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. In the face of knowledge explosion with new scientific evidence being published at an accelerated pace, doctors are faced with the challenge of keeping abreast with the relevant evidence to bring it to their patient.