Following the recent Health and Social Care Act, which profoundly changes the structure of the NHS in England, one of the concerns that persists is the potential fragmentation of services […]
Month: July 2012
Annie Neo Parsons: Ensuring access to healthcare for all
Health systems around the world are designed for the rich, but our development goals, such as the millenium development goals, are focused on the poor. The solution? Reform our health […]
Fran Baum: Demanding health for all now
The Third People’s Health Assembly got off to a rousing start yesterday with a plenary session addressed by the South African Minister of Health, Aaron Motsoaledi, who spoke of the […]
Richard Smith: “Whole of government and whole of society”: making it real
Have you heard the phrase “whole of government and whole of society?” If you haven’t you soon will. It’s the summary of the formula for fixing many of the world’s […]
Martin McShane: New job
I got a new job last week. My daughter was appearing in Annie at the Retford Majestic Theatre. She belongs to the Mini-Operatic Bunch (MOB), the junior branch of the […]
Pritpal S Tamber: Doctors only trust doctors
I’m petrified. I’ve been invited to participate in the Institute of Medicine‘s Roundtable on value and science driven healthcare. The focus of the all-day meeting is “continuous learning and the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 9 July 2012
Arch Intern Med 25 June 2012 Vol 172 909 The Archives are about to mutate into JAMA Internal Medicine, but I generally find them a better read than JAMA proper. […]
Domhnall MacAuley: The final answer to the breast screening dilemma at WONCA Europe.
Communicating risk is about numbers. If you think of any serious disease, the potential to reduce risk by 50% sounds fantastic. If the incidence is 2/10 and you reduce the […]
Tiago Villanueva: Portugal’s health system in intensive care
Austerity is already asphyxiating Portugal’s health system, and recent developments may soon put it in the intensive care unit. The current state of affairs is so serious that for the […]
Emma Rourke: Junior doctors don’t put patients’ lives at risk
It’s coming up to that time of year once again, where—for newly qualified doctors across the country—the jubilation associated with passing finals gives way to the incipient dread of the […]