While it’s been challenging to make neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) a priority on the global health agenda, until recently, the struggle to raise the conversation beyond niche circles has been […]
Guest writers
Chris Hopson: You get what you pay for—a different approach to the 2015/16 NHS tariff is crucial
If you get what you pay for, then 2015/16 risks being a very difficult year for the NHS, as the system affordability challenge, according to Monitor, jumps from 3.1% to […]
Ahmed Rashid: Can we ever be “just friends” with big pharma?
It’s been less than a decade since I started medical school and even in my short career the relationship between doctors and the drug industry has undergone drastic change. During […]
Bev Fitzsimons: Practical tools to improve patients’ experience
At the King’s Fund, we have spoken a lot about the benefits of collective leadership lately. With the challenges currently facing the NHS, leaders at all levels across organisations need […]
Kevin Watkins: Universal health coverage—back on the global agenda
A few years ago, I was at a rural hospital in Eastern Province, Zambia. Doctors were trying frantically, and in the end unsuccessfully, to save the life of a five […]
Gwyn Samuel Williams: “Les Miserables” examiners
I recently had the single pleasure of undergoing exit exams run by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and could not help but wonder at how examiners could on the whole […]
Simon Poole: NICE, statins, data, and doctors
In June 2009, the World Health Organization declared the swine flu outbreak to be a pandemic. Most of us will recall the grave concerns expressed by politicians and the media […]
David Berger: Stoushes, rorts, and cuts in Australian healthcare
To Europeans, Australia resembles the kind of alien planet so beloved of 1950s American science fiction writers. Strange, bounding animals hop across an arid, unfamiliar landscape, dotted with queer trees […]
Florence Smith: NCDs and HIV—where’s the intersection?
At first glance, NCDs (non-communicable diseases) and HIV/AIDS seem to have little in common. However, a recent symposium, organised by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and FHI360, […]
Liliana Gomes: How dirty is your QWERTY?
It all started a few weeks ago in my communicable diseases module at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. During a group brainstorming session we realised how “unclean” […]