Today EU leaders will attempt to come to an agreement on air pollution reduction targets that will determine the quality of our air for the next 15 years. The National […]
Guest writers
Dan Kremer: Time limits on published sanctions are needed but we must tailor them to doctors’ circumstances
We are pleased that the General Medical Council (GMC) has changed its policy on how long it publishes sanctions imposed on doctors, but do not believe it sufficiently considers individual […]
Edward Wernick and Steve Manley: Meaningful patient collaboration—the end of the beginning . . .
The delay between this blog and the last one in November on the new King’s Fund Collaborative Pairs Programme reflects the level of work that we have been dealing with over the […]
Remembering Jean Martin Charcot: The “Napoleon of Neuroses”
Jean Martin Charcot (pictured) (1825-1893) was one of the great pioneers of neurology—the so called Napoleon of the neuroses. He was the first to describe multiple sclerosis, named the “shaking palsy” […]
Lawrence Loh: Public health and why terminology matters
As younger generations of physicians develop a newfound interest in the social determinants of health, public health has increasingly become a buzzword for providers to throw about. In the medical community, it is […]
Suzanne Gordon: What we call healthcare professionals matters
The other day I attended a patient safety workshop at a major US hospital. The physicians and nurses, IT, and other quality and safety staff in the room were deeply […]
Anne Marie Rafferty: Whose responsibility is the workforce anyway?
It’s the workforce stupid! That is the key message of the Nuffield Report, “Reshaping the workforce to deliver the care patients need.” Workforce solutions are rarely quick fixes so policy […]
Paul Hunter: Zika virus would be able to spread in Europe
Zika virus is not new. Last year, when I was asked if I knew of an expert on the disease in the UK, I searched for papers written by an author […]
John Appleby: New NHS inflation figures underline funding pressures facing the NHS
The latest Quarterly Monitoring Report from the King’s Fund surveying NHS trust finance directors reveals deepening pessimism about local finances and concern about the outturn for the current financial year. New NHS […]
Ian Roberts: Misleading meta-analyses of small trials?
In September 2015, under the banner “Trusted evidence, Informed decisions, Better Health,” a Cochrane Collaboration press release proclaimed to the public that “preoperative statin therapy reduces the odds of postoperative […]