Focusing on free car parking as a way to “reward” hospital staff is neither equitable, nor beneficial to health and wellbeing, say Harriet Larrington-Spencer and Matthew Jackson […]
Year: 2020
With a doctor facing the death penalty, the international medical community must act now
Since the arrest of Ahmadreza Djalali in Iran in 2016, human rights, medical, and scientific organizations have condemned each step of the Iranian government’s persecution of Djalali, a leading Swedish-Iranian […]
The importance of the morning coffee break
Every morning at around 10.30am a screen message is circulated in our GP practice; “Coffee in 10 minutes?” The replies follow, “Yes, see you soon,” “Will be up as soon […]
Could Slovakia’s mass testing programme work in England?
What is happening in Slovakia and what lessons might it hold for the UK? […]
Hello, NHS 111 First?—Call before you walk
Before NHS 111 First is rolled out nationally, we need data from more extensive and longer term pilots, say Simon Hodes and Neena Jha Our medical advent calendars this year […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—4 December 2020
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Andy Cowper: Four key things you may have missed this week
The obvious excitement of the news that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for covid-19 for rollout in the UK, coupled with the minor-key […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Calcium connections
Some of the biomedical words first cited from 1978 in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (Table 1) are connected with calcium—nimodipine, calmodulin, and alfacalcidol. Table 1. Biomedical words (n=28) in […]
We have so much to gain by getting this vaccination programme right
We mustn’t jeopardise it with poor communication and service models, says Rebecca Steinfeld Much has been said about how the covid-19 pandemic has enhanced and encouraged community spirit and taught […]
Tara Lamont: What can the past teach us about the present?
Memory, learning, history, loss, curiosity, energy. These are not terms normally associated with NHS improvement. But our week-long programme of stimulating talks by service and clinical champions, researchers, and thought […]