Last November, the publication of data on the NHS Cervical Screening Programme by NHS Digital presented concerning figures once again regarding cervical screening coverage rates. With rates at their lowest […]
Year: 2018
Stephane M Shepherd: Cultural awareness training for health professionals can have unintended consequences
The overpoliticisation of simple medical encounters may do more harm than good […]
Elizabeth Jameson: “I wish my health provider knew…”
As a person living with the progressive illness of Multiple Sclerosis, I visit my waiting room often. This experience can be stressful and isolating not only for visitors who are […]
Ashish Jha: A year of living dangerously with the Affordable Care Act
Although efforts to repeal the ACA in 2017 did not come to fruition, it did not escape unscathed […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—22 January 2018
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Anthony McDonnell and Neil Woodford: Hype can undermine hope for new antibiotics
Every time a newly discovered molecule or preclinical drug makes the headlines as a “cure for drug resistant infections,” we risk people thinking that the problem has been solved […]
Nick Hopkinson: Your life in my hands—review
Andrew Lansley had his calamitous Health and Social Care Act 2012; Kenneth Clarke introduced the wasteful and destructive NHS internal market before going off to work for British American Tobacco; […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Being one, two, or many
As I noted last week, animals are monophyodonts, diphyodonts, or polyphyodonts. Rodents and some cetaceans, for example, are monophyodonts—their teeth grow continuously and are never replaced. Humans, and most other […]
Writing letters directly to patients puts them at the centre of their care
A clinic letter from a paediatric surgeon hit the headlines recently. Written to the child’s GP and copied to her parents, it began “Thank you for referring this lovely young […]
Jeremy Taylor: There are reasons for patients to welcome Hunt’s return to the Department of Health and Social Care
What, as patients, are we to make of the re-appointment of Jeremy Hunt, yet again, to the government’s health brief? […]