I spent a week working in Australia earlier this month and it made me reflect on similarities and differences with the NHS in England. The funding context feels quite different, […]
Month: November 2015
Neville Goodman’s Metaphor Watch: Pandora’s box and double-edged swords
From the Holy Grail (qv) to Pandora’s Box. Pandora’s Box has mutated. When Pandora opened her box, the evils flew out and could not be put back in. All that […]
Richard Smith: Big data, Twitter, the NHS, and the junior doctors’ dispute
Big data, as we all know, is going to save us. Used well it will make health systems solvent, introduce immortality, cool the planet, bring peace in the Middle East, […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—30 November
NEJM 26 Nov 2015 Vol 373 “Artificial cell” for diabetes 2129 “Home use of an artificial beta cell in type 1 diabetes” conjures up a vision of some huge cellular […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Conciliatory
The junior doctors (pictured) vote to strike. The BMA seeks to resolve the dispute with Jeremy Hunt through the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service Acas. Not before time. He rejects […]
Alice Gerth: Strike action is not the answer
The strength of feeling of anger within the healthcare profession is so strong that those not planning to take industrial action are reluctant to speak out. I want the public […]
Arun Jithendra on reducing tobacco production in India
India is the third largest tobacco producer and exporter of tobacco globally. Flue Cured Virginia (FCV) tobacco, which is used in the manufacturing of cigarettes, is one of the main […]
Latest spending review: Hail to the chiefs . . . but major challenges remain
As the details of the spending review were announced this week, the scale of the achievement by Jeremy Hunt and Simon Stevens in securing a frontloaded NHS settlement became clearer. […]
Tony Rao: Politics, persuasion, and pickets
“What makes the current dispute all the more remarkable is that in 1975, only 56% of junior doctors voted in favour of industrial action.” Junior doctors accept their lot with […]
Terence Gibson: Pulling through an Ebola outbreak
The King’s Sierra Leone Partnership (KSLP) aims to strengthen Sierra Leone’s health system by working with local partners to improve training, clinical services, policy, and research. Following on from Colin […]