Public health directors across England are now leading the response to covid-19, working with the support of Public Health England’s health protection teams. My discussions with directors in areas where […]
Month: September 2020
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Assessment
With severe osteoarthritis in my left hip, I am due to have a hip replacement. My having been a wicket-keeper for over 30 years can’t have helped, but I also […]
Ian Hamilton: Drug testing employees—shame is never a successful way to solve complex social ills
Ensuring that people who have problems with drug misuse receive the help they need should be our priority, not catching them out by crudely applied drug testing, says Ian Hamilton […]
Ceinwen Giles: Is it safe to go to hospital or visit my GP—patients want to know
The NHS has to go beyond telling people to attend hospital and GP services and instead explain how it is working to keep them safe throughout their healthcare experience, says […]
Janice Kwan: What I have learned about clinical decision support systems over the past decade
When I embarked upon my journey as a freshly minted physician in 2009, practicing clinical medicine involved a motley assortment of low- and high-fidelity technologies. I recall documenting notes fastidiously […]
Covid-19: how can we prevent people from ethnic minorities being disproportionately affected in a second wave?
The first wave of covid-19 in the UK has passed. We now know that there is over-representation of people from ethnic minorities among those infected; they are also at higher […]
John Headley Ward: Sign-off based medicine—who wins?
The use of workplace based assessments on clinical placements risks making these experiences more about getting signatures than learning, says John Ward […]
Martin Marshall: Now is the time to support general practice, not demoralise GPs
Just yesterday in surgery I saw patients face to face. In each case, it just wouldn’t have been appropriate to care for the patient remotely. I listened, examined, arranged tests […]
Industry interference in nutrition science reaches into low and middle income countries
Medical journals, including The BMJ, are bringing greater attention to how funding from the food and beverage industry biases the evidence base in nutrition science. [1] Recent discussions of industry […]
Mandeep Dhaliwal: We need a green recovery to prevent the next pandemic
Covid-19 is more than a health crisis. If the virus has taught the world anything, it is that ignoring our problems will not make them disappear: the threat of a […]