Continuing my search for biomedical black swans, based on the words newly cited in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1970 to 2020, I now turn to terms relevant to […]
Month: June 2021
Screening for gambling harms in primary care
There is currently a real opportunity to establish an effective approach to preventing gambling harms, say Jenny Blythe and May Van Schalkwyk In recent months, some of the now widely […]
Mental health in the covid-19 pandemic: we need careful presentation and interpretation of facts
Since early on in the covid-19 pandemic there have been expressions of concern about its impact on mental health. The mainstream media have reported on these concerns in melodramatic terms, […]
A national system of online access by patients to personal health information in Australia is proving valuable
There was a significant piece of international healthcare news this year in April that you may have missed. It was such a momentous development—empowering people and providing them with access […]
Julian Sheather: Time to address the climate emergency in the medical curriculum
I logged on to a fascinating webinar recently—medical education and climate change at the Royal Society of Medicine. As the Lancet’s 2020 Countdown on health and climate change put beyond […]
Chris Ham: The government’s response to the NHS backlog has fallen short
The government should stop sleepwalking into the future and provide the NHS with sustained increases in funding to meet unprecedented demand for care The NHS has rightly been praised for […]
Co-designing hospitals with staff and patients can radically improve them as workplaces and spaces to provide care
Better hospital design could improve staff productivity and wellbeing, as well as bringing a host of therapeutic benefits, say Emma Boxer, Mark Butler, Anne Lumb, and Kendal Moran […]
Daily contact testing trials in schools are unethical and extending them to include the delta variant puts everyone at risk
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Andy Cowper: Data not dates, and all that
On Monday 14 June, the government announced a four week delay to ending covid-19 restrictions in England as had been planned from the 21 June. The announcement came after extensive […]
The delay to the NHS data grab provides more time to find out what it really means for patients
Now that the date for extracting patients’ data from primary care has been postponed, the government should use this time to to enable meaningful patient consent to be obtained, say […]