It is a sign of the times that one of the best ways for information from outside of hospital to come to my attention is via my Facebook newsfeed. This […]
Guest writers
George Alleyne: Global health challenges and opportunities
The standard approach to defining the global health challenges is to use some formulation of Abdel Omran’s epidemiological transition or what is known also as the health transition and show […]
Robin Gorna: Is an HIV free generation an achievable aim?
Tomorrow is World AIDS Day and this year all the talk is of tipping points and “ending AIDS.” On both sides of the Atlantic lobby groups are calling on their […]
Gitau Mburu: How communities have helped transform the global HIV response
As World AIDS Day approaches, let’s pause for a second to pay tribute to the tremendous efforts around the globe which have resulted in more than eight million people having […]
Desmond O’Neill: The age friendly university
All innovation is characterised by many false starts, but occasionally an event feels like the real deal, a sure sense of a phase shift in our world. This was the […]
David Nicholl: Bodies revealed but with consent for what?
The Human Tissue Act (HTA) arose out of the Alder Hey scandal when hundreds of deceased children’s organs were retained without seeking consent from their relatives between 1988-1996 in Liverpool. […]
Jacky Davis on the National Health Action party
On a recent rainy Saturday in November an estimated 15,000 people marched through the centre of Lewisham in response to a call to protect their local hospital whose A&E department, […]
Trishan Panch: More disruption please?
As an NHS GP I learned that healthcare is fundamentally locally provided and delivered through fostering long term relationships. However, the convergence of mobile technology and big data have the […]
Desmond O’Neill: Amour, ageing, and missed opportunities
A striking aspect of clinician involvement in bioethics is the therapeutic focus they bring to the table. Time and again, when non clinician ethicists present dilemmas, the doctors propose fresh […]
Fred Kavalier: Judge not
Do doctors and judges inhabit different worlds? A judgment handed down this week makes me feel they do. I do not think justice has been done in the case of […]