The standard of palliative care in the UK is exemplary. We are able to provide expert, compassionate care to a great many terminally ill people and we rightly hold our […]
Month: September 2019
Katherine Sleeman and Iain Chalmers: Assisted dying—restricting access to people with fewer than six months to live is discriminatory
The Australian state of Victoria has become the latest jurisdiction to legalise assisted dying, joining Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Canada and US states including Oregon, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Jersey […]
Marialena Trivella: The Albus Dumbledore of the medical research world—what would Doug Altman think?
A year on from his death, Marialena Trivella remembers Doug Altman and his lasting legacy on medical research, his colleagues, and friends […]
Anna Mitjans and Miquel Vilardell: Fostering healthy practice among physicians
Anna Mitjans and Miquel Vilardell describe the experience of the Barcelona Medical Council and Galatea Foundation in creating programmes that focus on caring for healthcare professionals and preventing ill health […]
Gustavo Tolchinsky Wiesen and Jaume Padrós: Caring programmes for sick doctors are a crucial step to self-regulation
Barcelona’s rehabilitatory approach to managing sick doctors provides a better model of self-regulation and improved outcomes for doctors and patients, say Gustavo Tolchinsky Wiesen and Jaume Padrós […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal review—24 September 2019
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Martin McKee: Some British politicians never understood the EU, but do they understand Westminster any better?
Boris Johnson has long taken the view that rules have been created for others to obey and facts are flexible. When he was Brussels correspondent for the Daily Telegraph he […]
Yasushi Katsuma and Maaya Sugai: How to achieve effective universal health coverage
The first ever United Nations High-Level Meeting on universal health coverage is an opportunity to consolidate unaddressed issues from G20 Osaka Summit in 2019, say Yasushi Katsuma and Maaya Sugai […]
Zulfiqar Bhutta: Delivering humane universal health coverage in humanitarian settings
Aspirational goals and targets often guide global health and development initiatives. The millennium development goals (MDGs), signed off by 189 countries in September 2000, aimed to reduce maternal and child […]
Satchit Balsari: Will AI help universalize health care?
The successful integration of AI into healthcare services must take different focuses depending on local contexts, says Satchit Balsari […]