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The BMA has given a cautious welcome to changes to the process for certifying deaths in the community in England, designed “to prevent criminal activity and poor practice” and which is due to be introduced next April. The health minister Maria Caulfield announced the publication of draft regulations for the new “safer system of death certification” on 14 December. She said the reform, which requires GPs to share records of patients who die from natural causes with their local medical examiner, would “protect and support bereaved families in the way they deserve.” She added, “Alth...

Through earthquakes and civil war, the doctors and staff of the Ain Al Bayda Hospital are going above and beyond—even as a funding crisis threatens to shut them down Ghufran, a 22 year old midwife, works a 9 am to 4 pm shift in an antenatal clinic at the Ain Al Bayda Hospital in northwest Syria. She’s responsible for monthly check-ups on patients who live in one of the 58 neighbouring camps for internally displaced people, who have been unable to leave through a decade of barbaric civil war. “The biggest danger to pregnant women here is anaemia caused by malnutrition,” she says. When h...

Jane Feinmann reports on ActionAid UK, which champions women’s rights during humanitarian crises The plight of women and girls managing menstruation during humanitarian crises is below the radar of many aid organisations. But it’s a priority for ActionAid UK, the choice for The BMJ ’s annual appeal this year—and the charity’s response to the September earthquake in Morocco shows why. That earthquake, which killed 3000 people and left 300 000 homeless, hit the remote Atlas Mountains—a very poor region that already had a high level of inequality, says Halima Begum, chief executive ...