The Ola During Children’s Hospital is close to having the x ray unit up and running. This is very exciting especially since it has been 6 years since the last […]
Month: November 2010
Helen Jaques: Radiation – good or bad?
Radiation has received a mixed press since the discovery of x rays 115 years ago. Wilhelm Roentgen’s exciting new finding was initially thought to be beneficial for health and was […]
Hamish Meldrum on the health white paper
It’s four months since the Department of Health published its Health White Paper for England, during which time seven additional consultations have emerged, and hundreds of organisations have responded. But […]
Richard Smith: A week in a schloss
As I arrived in Salzburg at Schloss Leopoldskron, globally prominent because of is role in the “Sound of Music,” I wondered if it would be possible for people from 29 […]
David Pencheon: Learning to learn comfortably
I have had two distinctly different learning experiences this week. First, for 48 hours in a summit of NHS managers, clinical leaders, and others in a posh hotel, and secondly, this […]
Domhnall MacAuley on editors, journals, and Harry Potter
Paddington Bear was at the end of the platform. And, he is still there 15 years later as I travel through London on my way to the BMJ office – still […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 15 November 2010
JAMA 10 Nov 2010 Vol 304 It’s not often that you see a paper in JAMA written by a real working British GP – so congratulations to Louis Levene from […]
Research highlights – 12 November 2010
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research […]
Richard Smith: How to turn around a failing hospital
England is said to have 30 hospitals that are failing so badly that they may be taken over by the private sector. So there might be a lot of interest […]
Martin McShane: Climate change
The King’s Fund paper “How cold will it be?” published in July 2009, discussed three financial scenarios for the NHS. The toughest was a 2% reduction in funding for 3 […]