There are many differences between healthcare and medical education in Tanzania and in the UK, but the concept I find hardest to understand is “attendance or sitting allowance.” This allowance […]
Month: March 2012
Andrew Moscrop: Leishmaniasis in Pakistan
Dust has blown up around the Kuchlak health centre near Quetta. A gritty wind that hurts the eyes, matts the hair, and coarsens the teeth. Dust clouds have utterly concealed […]
David Pencheon: Death by consumption—again
Tuberculosis used to be (and sometimes still is) the great scourge, causing death and disease on a global scale and changing the course of human history over millennium. It is […]
Richard Smith: Supporting high quality children’s heart care in China
In 2007 I arrived in Beijing at the start of a philanthropic exercise, and as I was driven into the city and stared at the modern buildings I thought: “Why […]
Lisa Hallgarten: Does midwifery have to be privatised to achieve continuity of care for women?
Earlier this year we received news of a social enterprise, Neighbourhood Midwives, providing midwifery services in the community in London, and a private company providing midwifery services for NHS Wirral […]
Richard Vize: Integrate
Integrating care across the NHS and social care holds the promise of giving patients a better service at the same time as cutting costs. But a study for the government […]
David Kerr: Medicine and the new media
“We’re doomed” was the familiar catch phrase of Private Fraser—the dour, Scottish ex-undertaker turned home guardsman from the popular BBC television series Dad’s Army. According to his Wikipedia page, Fraser […]
Richard Smith: Burnt or buried?
Some things divide us fundamentally. Are you male or female, gay or straight, right wing or left wing? Another fundamental division, I suggest, is whether we want to be burnt […]
Ryuki Kassai: The first anniversary of the Japanese tsunami
According to the plan, we should be well along the path to rebirth, but in reality, foolishness has continued, and nihilism and despair have only spread. Hayao Miyazaki: Nausicaä of […]
Lord Ashcroft: Anti-NHS Bill candidates would boost the Conservative Party
A group of doctors is threatening to stand candidates at the next general election in revenge for the Health and Social Care Bill. The anti-reform medics plan to target at […]