Healthcare systems need to better addresses waiting across the patient journey to support health, wellbeing, recovery, and trust […]
Month: April 2021
Adrian James: The end of the Five Year Forward View—what is next for mental health?
The Five Year Forward View (FYFV) was an important milestone for mental health and marked the start of a committed government agenda on mental health that has now become one […]
We must redesign the WHO’s building blocks to create more resilient health systems for the future
Since its launch in 2007, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) framework for strengthening health systems’ has been widely considered as a global action plan to improve health outcomes. The framework […]
Julian Sheather: Ethics of research in public health emergencies—perspectives from Guinea on the response to covid-19
Research into public health emergencies of global concern is fraught with ethical challenge. Bitter lessons learnt during successive outbreaks of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa suggest that these […]
Why journals should stop publishing transplantation research from China
Harrowing but credible allegations indicate crimes against humanity in forced organ harvesting at scale from prisoners of conscience, writes Adnan Sharif. Medical journals should avoid potential complicity until China shows […]
Richard Smith: The vision of an electronically connected NHS comes closer
In April 2002, the National Programme for IT (which in 2005 became Connecting for Health) set out with the ambitious vision of creating a paperless NHS. The programme was expected […]
Covid-19 and clinical reasoning—we all became novices once more
When covid-19 emerged, all doctors were faced with a new disease about which they knew little. Anna Hammond describes how the experience has changed her consultations with patients and how […]
The Sewell report risks turning the clock back on the fight against racism in the UK
After the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests last summer in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in the US, the UK government established the Commission on Race and […]
Has Europe failed to protect its people from covid-19?
Yes, we have failed. This was the short answer to the central question posed during a recent European Health Forum Gastein webinar to discuss the European Health Union Initiative (EHUI)—a […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Medical words of the 1980s
Since the start of the year I have been exploring biomedical words that are labelled in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as having first appeared in print in the 1980s. […]