Channel
@British_Medical_Journal
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13,824subscribers
+361 since we began measuring on 22 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
| Telegram ID | -1001409801003 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @British_Medical_Journal |
| Created | Between 1 April 2019 and 30 November 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 22 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 7 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 21 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 7 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/British_Medical_Journal |
Health & wellness — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 11 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 97% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Oct 2026, 08:55 | 13,824 | +41 |
| 2 Oct 2026, 09:55 | 13,783 | +91 |
| 18 Sept 2026, 16:18 | 13,692 | +27 |
| 16 Sept 2026, 09:59 | 13,665 | +6 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 16:57 | 13,659 | +18 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 01:37 | 13,641 | +19 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 05:01 | 13,622 | +22 |
| 8 Sept 2026, 10:19 | 13,600 | +26 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 07:57 | 13,574 | +9 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 13:37 | 13,565 | +5 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 04:09 | 13,560 | +13 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 00:47 | 13,547 | +4 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 01:37 | 13,543 | +22 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 00:27 | 13,521 | +8 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 21:33 | 13,513 | +5 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 00:54 | 13,508 | +8 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 03:06 | 13,500 | +8 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 05:46 | 13,492 | +7 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 04:47 | 13,485 | +22 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 14:45 | 13,463 | first reading |
32 posts held, back to 13 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 22 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 32 posts for this entry, the most recent from 2 September 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Prevention of altitude illness in adults: preparing people for travel to high altitude http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100532.short?rss=1 What you need to knowSupport individuals to pursue safe and responsible high altitude travel by offering and signposting to sources of accurate and practical advice on prevention and recognition of altitude illness.Understand that tools exist to stratify altitude illness r…
ADHD and autism costs “out of control,” NHS leaders warn http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100726.short?rss=1 Spending on attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism services in England is “running out of control” with some areas seeing costs rise 10-fold in a year, NHS leaders have warned.The NHS Alliance—which represents NHS organisations in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland—i…
Doctor who removed patients’ ovaries without consent faces fresh fitness to practise tribunal http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100725.short?rss=1 A consultant gynaecologist who removed two patients’ ovaries without consent faces a new fitness to practise tribunal.This came after a High Court judge ruled that the original tribunal reached conclusions that were wrong and “unjust by reason of serious proc…
Family of doctor who took his own life after GMC investigation appeal to Supreme Court http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100723.short?rss=1 The family of a doctor who killed himself within hours of learning that he had been referred to the General Medical Council (GMC) are asking the UK Supreme Court to hear their case for compensation.It comes after a ruling on the case that found the medical regulator did no…
US heatwaves: nearly 1 in 10 emergency department visits heat related, study finds http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100722.short?rss=1 Almost a tenth of visits to emergency departments (EDs) during heatwaves in the US last year were heat related, research suggests.Two papers, published together in Nature Health, looked at the effect of extreme temperatures on EDs, and how at-home air conditioning may have ave…
GP AI receptionist failing to understand patients with accents, report warns http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100720.short?rss=1 An artificial intelligence receptionist system for general practices, which responds poorly to regional accents and speech impediments, could put patients at risk of digital exclusion, a health watchdog has warned.Healthwatch Rotherham said that many patients had experienced frustra…
West Nile virus death is confirmed in Netherlands http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100719.short?rss=1 A man has died in Utrecht, Netherlands, after contracting West Nile virus, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) has confirmed.His death has raised concerns among public health experts about how widely the virus is spreading in countries where it had not previously been fou…
UK childhood vaccination rates fall in babies but stabilise at age 5 http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100718.short?rss=1 Vaccination rates to protect babies against severe illness have fallen again in the UK, official data show.1 However, uptake of routine immunisations in children about to start primary school seems to be stabilising after a decade of slowly declining rates.2The UK Health Security Agency (UK…
Civility is the foundation of patient safety in surgery http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100648.short?rss=1 Working in the operating theatre can be stressful and lead to heightened emotions, frustration, and short tempered outbursts. In most cases these minor disruptions are rapidly resolved with no effect on patient care. However, several recent high profile cases have shown longstanding unprofessional and o…
Health and the city: why urban health systems need greater authority http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100591.short?rss=1 Around four billion people, just over half the global population, live in urban areas. This proportion is projected to rise to two thirds by 2050, with most growth occurring in low and middle income countries (LMICs).1 Urbanisation affects health by changing the conditions in which people l…
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Dolly Parton’s maȷor contributions to vaccines and public health http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100694.short?rss=1 Just before noon local time on 21 October 2013,1 a car entering an intersection in Nashville, Tennessee, crashed into an SUV. Sitting in the passenger seat of that SUV was Dolly Parton.2 Thankfully, no one was seriously hurt, and the legendary country singer experienced only minor…
Showing the 12 most recent of 32 posts we hold for @British_Medical_Journal. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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This channel appears in 50 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 24 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 7 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The BMJ (British Medical Journal)” (@British_Medical_Journal), 13,824 subscribers as measured 7 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/British_Medical_Journal.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.