Columnist Charles Moore asked in The Spectator magazine last week if the Liverpool Care Pathway might have inspired more confidence if it had been called, say, the Oxford Care Pathway. […]
Month: July 2013
Sonia Roschnik: Why sustainability is core to health
Welcome to a series of blogs on sustainable healthcare that look at health, sustainability, and the interplay between the two. The blogs share ideas from experts across the healthcare field, […]
Chris Naylor: Why we cannot afford to be pessimistic about CCGs
Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a lot stacked against them. They have taken control of the majority of the NHS budget at a time when financial pressures are mounting and […]
Nassim Parvizi on being a junior doctor on the Keogh Review
As junior doctors, we all see and hear things that work well or that could work better as we rotate between different departments across a number of hospital trusts. So […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—29 July 2013
JAMA 24-31 July 2013 Vol 310 It’s possible that you want to read about US physicians’ views on their role in cost containment, and about rates of breast cancer survival […]
Aser Garcia Rada: Exporting the Spanish and European organ donation system
Most Europeans support organ donation, but there is still a need for more organ donors, according to several experts at a recent international meeting on donation and transplantation, organized in […]
Michael Barry: Aligning incentives to support shared decision making in the United States
Shared decision making (SDM) between clinicians and patients is riding high in clinical and health policy circles in the United States. SDM is featured in several sections of the Affordable […]
Chandni Maheshwari on volunteering for “Doctors for You” in the Uttarakhand flood affected areas
When television channels started beaming images of the Uttarakhand flash floods the magnitude of nature took me by a surprise. Thousands were displaced, and infrastructure worth millions was damaged. The […]
Jane Parry: Why are we so resistant to calling sugar the enemy?
Sparing developing countries the fate of obesity associated diseases that plague the developed world is currently one of the most pressing global public health issues. Before we export wholesale the […]
William Cayley: Continuity—in and out of hospital in the US
We’re seeing a resurgence in primary care in the US—or are we? In a recent post, Domhnall MacAuley comments on the way primary care seems to have “emerged from the […]