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Guest writers
Mike Clarke: Assessing the impact of participating in research – the need for core outcomes?
The COMET Initiative is making it easier for people to develop, identify, and use core outcome sets to improve the potential impact of research findings on healthcare practice, health, and wellbeing. […]
Desmond O’Neill: Quantitative easing – the academic version
The economic downturn has given us all a crash course in the arcane language of economics. A fine example is “quantitative easing,” a sober and serious sounding euphemism for the […]
Anna Dixon: Innovations in the healthcare workforce needed to deliver productivity improvements
The NHS in England faces a huge challenge over the next decade. The tighter public spending settlement for the NHS means the NHS will have to increase productivity in the […]
Nigel Hawkes: Give a Kidney – One’s Enough
The late Sir Jimmy Saville devoted much of his life to public service, raising £40 million for various good causes including hospitals, and even working shifts as a hospital porter. […]
Dawn-Marie Walker: The emergence of online research methods
Since the internet erupted onto the scene in the 80s and 90s it has changed how we work and interact socially. Whereas before to communicate with someone in another part […]
Richard Vize on local government taking over responsibility for public health
Despite being 18 months away from taking over responsibility for public health, local government has already had its first clash with the NHS. It illustrates the cultural chasm the two […]
Desmond O’Neill: Death and the composer: Thanatos as muse?
Even though my clinical life is enmeshed with an active arts and health programme with music in pole position –a composer in residence in the Stroke Unit and a hospital […]
Fran Baum: The conclusion of the Rio conference
The final day of the Rio conference was on Friday and the official declaration from the conference still doesn’t deal with the underlying factors that are driving health inequalities between and within countries. […]
Babatunde Osotimehin: Helping families in the Horn of Africa to make better choices
I was pleased to learn that Hawa Ali, a 27 year old woman whom I met at a maternity shelter in Garissa, in Northern Kenya, recently delivered triplets. Hawa had […]