Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Year: 2020
Making the social determinants of health the focus for healthcare improvement efforts
Quality improvement efforts must start to focus on the environments in which humans are “born, grow, live, work, and age,” argues Kaveh G Shojania […]
Strengthening pandemic preparedness and response begins with answering the question: where are the women?
Research from the Ebola and Zika epidemics clearly demonstrated that disease outbreaks affect women differently to men, while also differentially impacting non-binary genders and transgender persons. The impacts have been […]
Kawaldip Sehmi: International patient advocates from 101 countries call for action
Plans to hold to the 9th biennial Global Patients Congress 2020 (GPC 2020) in the hallowed rooms of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, to mark the International Association […]
Our children face “pretraumatic stress” from worries about climate change
Children are particularly vulnerable to the psychological trauma from current extreme weather events. They can also be harmed by the fear of future harms, writes Lise Van Susteren. Adults have […]
Saffron Cordery: We must not lose our focus on mental health at the very moment it’s needed most
As we navigate our way through the second national lockdown for England and beyond, we must not lose sight of the impact of the pandemic on mental health and the […]
Tamasin Knight: Equal protection from assault—time to follow Scotland’s lead
On Saturday 7th November 2020, children in Scotland gained the same legal protection from physical assault as adults. With the Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Act coming into force, […]
Medical stereotypes: Just good fun or a barrier to diversity in our workforce?
Many of us will be familiar with common medical speciality stereotypes—“the tall, strong orthopaedic surgeon from the medics rugby team,” the psychiatrist who is “as mad as their patients,” or […]
Alexandra Freeman: The strange world of risk perception, and communicating risks
What colour is 6d46c4? It feels a bit of a nonsensical question to most of us. It’s a code for a certain colour in hexadecimal, familiar probably only to web […]
Violence risk assessment in psychiatry: nobody can predict the future
Violence risk assessments are sometimes used to inform decisions around the involuntary admission of people to hospital. Yet the evidence for their use is at best unclear, say Gautam Gulati, […]