We all know that the health service is struggling. GPs are seeing escalating workloads, waiting times are getting longer, emergency care is on its knees with ambulances queueing in front […]
Month: March 2015
Des O’Neill: Flights of Imagination—Birdman and Still Alice
Birdman, one of the most riotously entertaining yet serious movies of the last decade, deservedly won a clutch of Oscars. Dealing with ageing, the fear of irrelevance, and the nature […]
The BMJ Today: From Wakefield to Whitstable, and Yeovil to Harrogate . . .
New models of care • Today, The BMJ carries the news that NHS England has announced 29 geographical sites to spearhead the new models of integrated care espoused in the […]
David Payne: How to be an academic social media star
Melissa Terras is the most downloaded academic in her faculty at UCL, and attributes her success to social media. Eight years ago Terras (pictured below), director of UCL’s Centre for […]
Samir Dawlatly: Sabre-toothed tigers and the lottery
The other day an older gentleman* was brought to the GP surgery where I used to work. He was feeling nauseous, and his concerned family had initially taken him to the […]
Neal Maskrey: Words matter
Me and mine all like Claire. She’s talented, works hard, and recently took a big chance going self-employed. It seems to be paying off. We chatted about her imminent holiday, […]
Neville Goodman: Morale is always at rock bottom
We all know that blood pressure is a continuous variable. We measure it with a sphygmomanometer and, within the limits of measurement and its extreme range, blood pressure can be […]
The BMJ Today: Politics and health, patients and professionals, and stalled drug trials
Here’s your Tuesday roundup: Politics and health • In an analysis article, David Hunter argues that, rather than exclude politics from health, we must embrace it if we are to […]
Nasreen Jessani: The (conflicted) role of researchers as advocates
“You must lobby the parliament for your research to be considered! Rigorous evidence needs to be coupled with intense lobbying in order for political parties, who are steered by interest […]
Kim Wolff: New drug driving legislation in the UK
On Monday 2 March, the new drug driving legislation came into force in the UK taking on board many of the recommendations from the expert panel report commissioned by the […]