After years in obscurity, those of us concerned about chronic disease are about to have our moment in the spotlight—at the United Nations High Level Meeting in New York next […]
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Tracey Koehlmoos: Murmur of methodological tension at the Symposium
The First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research ended on a crescendo of upbeat promise on the 19th of November, but amid all of the excellence of organisation, content, energy […]
Richard Smith: We need more Tweeters
Far too few people Tweet. I’ve just been teaching a class on getting published in Buenos Aires, and only one of 60 researchers Tweeted. “Writing and publishing the paper,” I […]
Desmond O’Neill: An appalling (Irish) vista
It is sad that the memory of Lord Denning, the eminent jurist, will always be associated with the unhappy phrase “appalling vista,” pronounced during the appeal hearing of the Birmingham […]
Julian Sheather: On the terrible instability of opinion
We live in momentous times. Foundations are being shaken; long-held assumptions overthrown. The relationship between citizen and state is being redrawn. Consider only the health service. So much that seemed […]
Martin McShane: Gentlemen or players (and fish farms)
The concerns expressed by the new chair of the RCGP about the difficulties which GPs might face, in taking on commissioning, are pertinent. There is always a tension between being […]
Tracey Koehlmoos: From the first global symposium on health systems research
I must confess that I am at a meeting…again. This time I am at the long awaited First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. I am in Montreux with more […]
Sandra Lako on the prospects and challenges of a functioning x ray department
The Ola During Children’s Hospital is close to having the x ray unit up and running. This is very exciting especially since it has been 6 years since the last […]
Richard Smith: A week in a schloss
As I arrived in Salzburg at Schloss Leopoldskron, globally prominent because of is role in the “Sound of Music,” I wondered if it would be possible for people from 29 […]
Richard Smith: How to turn around a failing hospital
England is said to have 30 hospitals that are failing so badly that they may be taken over by the private sector. So there might be a lot of interest […]