Jeremy Hunt recently told Twitter that “Moderate doctors must defeat the militants,” quoting the title of a Times article about the current war between the Department of Health and the […]
Month: November 2015
Alisha Patel: Why sustainability should be important to medical students
Medical school can feel like a production line of future doctors, equipping us with the skills to diagnose and manage patients with a vast number of illnesses. But if we […]
Richard Smith: The NHS—a terrible thought
There is great reluctance in Britain to consider any other kind of funding for the NHS apart from taxation, but we are surely close to a time when we will […]
Meena P: A lack of resources for community health nursing in India
With a shortage of doctors, it is the nurses and other allied health professionals who run the show in many of the primary healthcare settings in India. Nurses make up a […]
Peter Killwick: Risks associated with conflicts of interest at CCGs
Conflicts of interest are an inevitable part of the commissioning environment. There are obvious advantages to having local GPs at the heart of commissioning and in many areas they have […]
Anita Charlesworth: The impact on health of the comprehensive spending review
On the 25 November the Chancellor of the Exchequer will stand up in Parliament and make a statement that will shape much of the political landscape for the rest of […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—23 November 2015
NEJM 19 Nov 2015 Vol 373 Spooky RSV trial 2048 There’s a hint of Porton Down about this phase 1 study of an oral treatment for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). […]
Samir Dawlatly: Capacity insurance—not being missold
My wife and I have just booked a near extortionate holiday in the UK for the next major school holidays. As usual we were offered “cancellation insurance,” just in case […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Terrorism
The Latin word “terror,” from the hypothetical Indo-European root TER, implying trembling, meant “the fact or quality of inspiring terror” (Oxford Latin Dictionary) and a person or thing that causes […]
John Middleton: Why is there acute hunger in the UK and what is to be done about it?
Every day family doctors face the struggle of being custodians of entitlement to food bank help and backstops for the failures of the welfare system, while at the same time […]