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Richard Smith
Richard Smith was the editor of The BMJ until 2004.
Richard Smith: Making 2018 the year of NCD
Progress has stalled over the past few years, but with better messaging, a simplified programme, and increased accountability then 2018 could be the year of NCD […]
Richard Smith: How to improve NHS Improvement
Baroness Dido Harding (pictured), the chair of NHS Improvement, is the latest in a series of high achieving business people brought in to improve the NHS, and last week she […]
Richard Smith: Why the NHS shouldn’t be given more funds
Increased funding risks propping up a system that has to change […]
Richard Smith: Urban health—finding a way around the health system
Urbanisation, said Jo Ivey Boufford, president of the International Society for Urban Health, at a C3 breakfast seminar last week, is one of the four great challenges to health along with […]
Richard Smith: The dangers of textbooks
Recently published research has found that about half of the authors of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, which is nothing short of a Bible in medicine, have received payments from […]
Richard Smith: “This house needs new drugs”—no it doesn’t
Last week I took part in a debate at the Cambridge Union on the motion “This house needs new drugs.” The motion was proposed by the chief executive of AstraZeneca, […]
Richard Smith: Celebrating progress with creating a sustainable NHS
One of the successes of health workers concerned with climate change has been to get climate change framed as a health issue as well as an environmental issue […]
Richard Smith: Spreading innovation in the NHS through social franchising
It is comparatively easy to find funding for the randomised trials that may or may not show the effectiveness of innovations, but much harder to fund scale-up […]
Richard Smith: How medicine is destroying itself
We need to change the course of medicine from a battle that can never be won to a humane enterprise […]