There seems to be no end to our healthcare demands, but there does appear to be a limit to how much tax we will pay, says Peter Brindley […]
Year: 2018
Petra Boynton: Supporting healthcare workers to help patients cope with pregnancy loss
Anyone who’s had training on pregnancy loss will be familiar with the figures that 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage, and that every day in the UK 15 babies […]
Kate Lovett: Waiting times for mental health treatment costs jobs, marriages, and finances
Long waiting times are detrimental for patients and healthcare workers […]
Zackary Berger’s journal reviews—8 October 2018
Zackary Berger reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Licensing, authorization, and the Medicines Act 1968
As I discussed last week, Clinical Pharmacology Month, currently in progress, is a good occasion during which to reflect on the 50th anniversary of the Medicines Act 1968 and its […]
Jamie Kirkham: Mitigating the problem of outcome reporting bias
The poor reporting of clinical studies indicates a collective failure of authors, peer reviewers, and editors on a massive scale […]
Amar Alwitry: Improving clinical review of incidents and clinician to clinician learning
We are human and we err. As a clinician we will face clinical errors which cause a patient to come to harm. We pass that information and learning on to […]
Paul D Thacker: Time to act on industry influence over medicine and lay zombie arguments to rest
We have the evidence that change is needed, says Paul D Thacker […]
Ian Hamilton: Are middle class drug users really to blame for the rise in violent crime?
Politicians can’t resist the getting “tough on drugs” message, even if it lacks evidence, says Ian Hamilton […]
Bruce Guthrie: Where next for the Quality and Outcomes Framework?
The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is still one of the world’s largest healthcare pay-for-performance programmes, unrivalled in scope and scale. In 2004, practices and general practitioners were promised substantial […]