What links a social prescription in Newcastle, a peer retreat in Lambeth, and a neighbourhood network in Leeds? Well, these were three of the six frontline teams in the People Powered […]
Guest writers
Jacky Davis: Without assisted dying there’s too many difficult deaths
Last year my sixty year old brother took his own life. When he was diagnosed with terminal renal cancer, he had just watched a close family member die a drawn […]
Lavanya Malhotra: Sex education in India
The website of India’s health minister, Harsh Vardhan, currently states: “So called ‘sex education’ to be banned. Yoga to be made compulsory.” The media has not been impressed, and controversy […]
Sean Roche: Resistance—what society needs to learn from the microbes
The first week in July saw extensive media coverage of the looming specter of microbial antibiotic resistance. The basic problem: Big Pharma isn’t developing new antibiotics. We look on, seemingly […]
Robin Kincaid: Surgical skills in Palestine—handing over the baton
In April this year, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) team travelled to East Jerusalem to oversee the teaching of the Basic Surgical Skills (BSS) course, which has been […]
Hugh Alderwick: NHS performance—are we really getting it right?
According to the Commonwealth Fund, in the UK we’re getting it (mostly) right—or, at least, we’re getting it more right than our international counterparts. In their comparative study of health […]
Gillian Turner: Recognising frailty in older people
Given the current emphasis on emergency admissions and older people, it is perhaps not surprising that the words “frail” and “frailty” are used almost interchangeably with “older people.” Yet more […]
Liz Allen: The economic case for medical research
Former US president Bill Clinton achieved a lot in the White House. He presided over the longest period of peacetime economic growth in American history, he signed the North American […]
Tom Jefferson and Peter Doshi: EMA’s double U-turn on its Peeping Tom policy for data release
Yesterday’s announcement that the EMA Management Board may have adopted a less obstructive policy to releasing clinical trial data comes hard on the heels of widespread coverage (see here, here, […]
James Partridge: The face of a warrior for the human spirit
To be chosen as the subject of the first People’s Portrait was, as Simon Weston put it, a very humbling experience. But as he showed consistently throughout the beautifully crafted […]