A new report from Health Education England details plans to tackle the junior doctors’ morale crisis. Two FY2’s argue why change is urgently needed. […]
Month: March 2017
Ingeborg Welters: Brexit is making EU doctors question their future in the NHS
Ingeborg Welters discusses why many EU doctors are considering leaving the NHS as a result of Brexit […]
Abraar Karan: Revisiting health as a human right—does everyone have the right to be healthy?
Is health a human right? This question has been a point of global contention, and in particular has driven the highly partisan ideological views on health reform in the United […]
J Robert Sneyd: 1500 new doctors for the NHS—racing to the finish or crawling to the start line?
On 4 October 2016, England’s health secretary, Jeremy Hunt announced government funding for 1500 additional undergraduate medical school places starting in September 2018. Although medical schools were anticipating the need […]
Tom Nolan: QOFerendum
The arguments to leave the Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) have a familiar ring to them: it’s so big it can’t reform; we need to take back control; we should stop […]
Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers: Ill informed replications will increase our avoidable waste of research
How does the replicability crisis relate to the estimated 85% waste in medical research? […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—20 March 2017
NEJM 16 Mar 2017 Vol 376 Stem cells for AMD For sufferers of age-related macular degeneration who were hoping for a stem cell cure, this week’s New England Journal brings […]
Kushal Patel: MPs move to overturn archaic Victorian abortion law
MPs voted this week to introduce a bill to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales. The Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Bill, proposed by a cross-party body of MPs, seeks […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Cherry picking and berry picking in systematic reviews
Cherry picking originally meant “the action or practice of harvesting cherries” (Oxford English Dictionary). The term is recorded as having been first used in November 1849, in Godey’s Lady’s Book: […]
Jemma Batte: The positive power of transparency
Jemma Batte discusses the importance of information sharing to help improve doctor-patient relationships. […]