Firearms amnesties do more than collect guns, says Michael Hirsh, they also help communities realise that firearm injury is preventable and unacceptable […]
Month: December 2018
Why is staffing still a problem in the NHS? Lack of flexibility may be the answer
If the NHS wants to retain its staff, it needs to adapt to their needs as individuals, say Dena El-Sawy, Emma Cox, Lord Archibald Kirkwood, and Johann Malawana […]
Mary E Black: “Manels” and what to do about them
Mary E Black on how to avoid manels […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Fingerprints
Last week, in my 200th blog in this series (200 = 2 × 10 × 10), I discussed the word “digit”, which means both a number and a finger or […]
Transformative change takes leadership, partnerships, and multisectoral collaboration
Investment in systems to promote collaboration is vital for health, say Shri J P Nadda and Nikolai Astrup […]
To achieve the SDG health goals we need to recognise the goals and outcomes of other sectors
Tobias Alfvén, Agnes Binagwaho, and Måns Nilsson call for multisectoral collaboration to become the “new normal” […]
Ensure that the family’s voice is heard first and last, and in their own words
When I was a third year medical student on my pediatric inpatient rotation, I thought I had mastered family centered rounds. I would stand in the patient’s room, position myself […]
Helen Haskell: Improving patient safety? Ask the patient
What do you think of first when you think of patient and family centered care? For many healthcare providers, it’s about providing information to patients in a way that they […]
Preventing avoidable deaths of people with a learning disability: Is LeDeR enough?
People with a learning disability die on average 16 years younger than people without a learning disability. It is estimated that 1,200 people with a learning disability die avoidably in […]
Jonathan Glass: Looking beyond the computer screen
To reduce medicine to a few pixels on a screen, a lab result, and a virtual clinic is to miss the patient as a whole person, says Jonathan Glass […]