Alongside thousands of other trainees, over the past months I have been partaking in the core training application rigmarole. And it is exhausting. For example the process of compiling a […]
Year: 2014
Richard Smith: Teaching medical students online consultation with patients
A first year medical student of today may well still be practising in 2070. We can’t know how medicine will look then, but we can see some clear trends. The […]
Manica Balasegaram: Drugs for the poor, drugs for the rich—why the current research and development model doesn’t deliver
The past month has seen the reputation of “Big Pharma” dented more than usual. The CEO of German pharmaceutical company Bayer, Marijn Dekkers, was reported as saying that the company […]
Martin Caldwell: My concerns about care.data
Over 212,000 people have signed a SumOfUs.org petition calling on the government and NHS England to think again about selling access to our personal medical information to private companies. Our […]
John Appleby: Care.data—your bits in their hands
Over the past few months there has been considerable debate and argument about plans by the NHS to collect and centrally collate details of individual patient records from general practice […]
Clare Gerada: Why care.data will be transformational to the NHS
If I learnt anything about myself while being chair of Royal College of General Practitioners, it’s that I am not one to shy away from giving opinions that are out […]
Anita Jain: Training science communicators in India
“Acupuncture boosts libido,” blared the headline of a leading Indian daily. “Acupuncture effective treatment for breast cancer,” proclaimed another. These are in effect reporting a study which examined if acupuncture […]
David Lock: Do CCGs have the power to pay out for past PCT NHS continuing care errors?
The NHS has paid out vast amounts—probably hundreds of millions of pounds—in recent years as a result of decisions that patients were not entitled to NHS Continuing Care (where the […]
Richard Smith: Will digitisation transform the NHS as it has much else?
Digitisation of the NHS will both save and improve it believe Jeremy Hunt, secretary of state for health, and Tim Kelsey, national director for patients and information at NHS England. […]
Elin Jones: Recruiting an additional 1000 doctors for Wales
In recent years the problems of appropriately staffing the NHS throughout all four nations have become more widely known, whether it is the impending timebomb of GP retirement, the problems […]