At the King’s Fund, we have spoken a lot about the benefits of collective leadership lately. With the challenges currently facing the NHS, leaders at all levels across organisations need […]
Month: June 2014
The BMJ Today: The dangers of anal sex, ensuring service redesign is evidence based, and the EMA taken to task over data disclosure
There are some topics that the British just don’t like to talk about, and bottoms, bowel habits, and anal sex fall firmly into that category—even when the conversation is with […]
Richard Lehman: The Medical Reformation
The Reformation that we know best began some time after the year 1500, but had its roots in a technological revolution, which took place 50 years earlier—the invention of the […]
Neal Maskrey: Seeing the world through a patient’s eyes
Captain Hawkeye Pierce of the 4077th MASH unit is one of the great fictional doctors. Battered by the US army, and brutalised by death and disfigurement in a war far […]
Richard Smith: Where is the value in medical care?
We have an old dog we love, and my wife and I have been debating whether to take him to the vet. Will it be worth it, asks my wife. The […]
Kevin Watkins: Universal health coverage—back on the global agenda
A few years ago, I was at a rural hospital in Eastern Province, Zambia. Doctors were trying frantically, and in the end unsuccessfully, to save the life of a five […]
The BMJ Today: Sick notes for “World Cup fever” and Obama pushes health benefits of carbon cuts
With the 2014 World Cup in Brazil fast approaching, hundreds of workers in China have been struck down with a serious bout of football fever. As Jane Parry reports, an […]
Gwyn Samuel Williams: “Les Miserables” examiners
I recently had the single pleasure of undergoing exit exams run by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and could not help but wonder at how examiners could on the whole […]
Muir Gray: Population health—what’s in a name
Suddenly the word population is everywhere. The Oxford University Department of Public Health is now the Department of Population Health Sciences, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement has added population health […]
Desmond O’Neill: Some illuminations on caring for older people
Gothenburg is a handsome city with imposing stone and brick buildings, simultaneously sober and ornamented, set among green hills falling to not one but two archipelagos. It was particularly striking […]