• Concern over inappropriate use of psychotropic drugs in people with intellectual disability The proportion of people with intellectual disability in the UK who have been treated with psychotropic drugs […]
Month: September 2015
David Payne: Can higher education help protect against dementia?
In 2001 Tony Blair’s bid for a second term as UK prime minister included a pledge to make “education, education, education” top priority for the Labour party, with a follow up […]
George Gillett: The NHS and immigration
Last February, the UK Home Office announced changes to immigration rules that would mean non-EU nurses would not have their visa applications prioritised. The decision not to add nursing to […]
Navjoyt Ladher: Preventing Overdiagnosis 2015—winding back the harms of too much medicine
“Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left”—Aldous Huxley Today sees the start of the third annual Preventing Overdiagnosis conference, this year hosted […]
The BMJ Today: Searching for the seven day services plan
• A freedom of information (FOI) request from BMJ Careers has found that there was no formal correspondence between the Prime Minister and the medical director of NHS England on […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—1 September 2015
NEJM 20-27 Aug 2015 Vol 373 726 We start with a basket trial. Say you are in a supermarket and put lots of brown things in your basket—bread, a joint […]