“Imagine that you write a scientific paper on the influence of various factors on drug compliance. You are not writing about a specific drug, but a student who is working […]
Month: March 2020
Celebrating 100 women in healthcare leadership
In time for International Women’s day, Carina Dowson, Johann Malawana, Melody Redman, and Hazel Awarah celebrate the great work being done by women in healthcare […]
Saroo Sharda: We need to talk about racism
Until we talk about racism openly and teach doctors and medical students how to tackle it, we won’t see real change, says Saroo Sharda […]
Covid-19: Is it reasonable to ask retired doctors to return to “duty”
In certain circumstances, and for a variety of reasons, patients choose to refuse medical treatment. [1] These decisions, in the absence of cognitive impairment, are typically respected by clinicians. Similarly, […]
Tom Jefferson: Covid-19—we live in surreal times
To me, the term “surreal” means dream like reality. That is what I felt when sitting at a table in my local Chinese restaurant in Rome. I noticed the waiting […]
Women from ethnic minorities face endemic structural racism when seeking and accessing healthcare
A Cultural Safety model provides the key to unlocking the door to equality in maternity care, say Amali Lokugamage and Alice Meredith […]
David Oliver: A troubled care home market should concern us all
The success or failure of our care home market has serious implications for all health and social care services, warns David Oliver […]
Abraar Karan: To control the covid-19 outbreak, young, healthy patients should avoid the emergency room
Young, healthy people with symptoms of covid-19 can help to prevent outbreaks in emergency rooms where our society’s sickest will be seeking care, says Abraar Karan […]
Rakhee Shah: Poverty is having an increasingly detrimental effect on children’s health and wellbeing in the UK
In 2017, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health published a landmark report looking at key indicators of infant, child and young people’s health. Uniquely, the State of Child […]
What an opioid safety initiative can teach us about using information to improve patient outcomes
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) takes pride in being a learning healthcare system. Our recent paper exemplifies how the VHA translates that broad principle into action. Building on a decade […]