The current financial pressures on the public sector and the drive to achieve savings in the NHS are the focus of much debate and speculation at the moment. Of particular […]
Year: 2010
Simon Wright: Europe’s development days are not delivering
The European Development Days have become an annual tradition, organised by the European Commission and the governments of Europe, to showcase the way they are supporting developing countries. I attended […]
Richard Smith: Ten iconoclastic thoughts
Last week I had the privilege of speaking to a learning set of six former NHS managers who have kept up their learning for over 20 years. They have done […]
Michael Wilks: the last day of the Cancún conference
The end of any international meeting is always fraught with uncertainty, and compromises are more likely as deadlines loom. On this last full day, Cancún looks like being very difficult to […]
Domhnall MacAuley: primary care in Brazil
Five of his pregnant patients were dead. Three murdered by drug dealers when they couldn’t pay their bills and two killed by the police. A very different maternal mortality in […]
Research highlights – 10 December 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 […]
Michael Wilks on the latest from Cancún
As we reach the middle of the second and final week of this COP meeting, positions are beginning to harden, and may well persist into the post-Cancún landscape. Ministers started […]
Richard Smith: The town that gave up medicine
How would you like to be part of a television programme provisionally entitled “The town that gave up medicine”? The programme will be made by a company called Films of […]
Anna Dixon: Should clinicians be responsible for the population as well as individuals?
Historically, clinicians have had a strong tradition of connecting the health of the individual in their surgery to the population’s health. Doctors were, for example, active in early campaigns for […]
Michael Wilks: Climate change and health – time for a new narrative
The last “COP” (conference of the parties) meeting, in Copenhagen a year ago ended in chaos, mutual distrust, and an agreement on very little. The fact that world leaders are staying […]