Many GPs across Europe will say that general practice is less respected as a specialty compared with hospital-based specialties. In some countries in Europe, general practice is not recognised as […]
Guest writers
Nikhil Sanyal: Crimes and punishments—what it’s like to care for a prisoner who is dying
Nikhil Sanyal explores how palliative care and the doctor-patient relationship are complicated when that patient is a prisoner […]
Kamaldeep Bhui and Jeremy Coid: Why we need place based responses to mental health problems
The social roots of psychiatric illness are more numerous than has been recognised, argue Kamaldeep Bhui and Jeremy Coid […]
Is palliative care having an existential crisis?
Is palliative care suffering from “chronic niceness”? What is its future? Lucy Selman, Libby Sallnow, Ros Taylor, Seamus O’Mahony, and Richard Smith discuss […]
Trish Greenhalgh: Towards an institute for patient-led research
“More powerful than the march of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come” – Victor Hugo The intellectual legacy of Rosamund Snow Rosamund Snow was a social scientist […]
The name game: A call for change to psychopharmacological nomenclature in clinical practice
The old nomenclature we have for drugs used for mental health conditions may hinder patients’ understanding of their medication, say Kaleen N Hayes and Mina Tadrous […]
The role of the arts within health
In 2007, Sir Nigel Crisp, then NHS chief executive, published a report concluding “arts and health are, and should be firmly recognised as being, integral to health, healthcare provision and […]
Bruce Keogh: Working with military veterans is key to achieving a scar free future for all
Advances in medical research have a long established connection with armed forces veterans—nearly 80 years ago plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe founded The Guinea Pig Club, working with over 600 Second […]
Richard Villar: Revisiting warfare
They say, as a doctor, empathy is important. Yet sometimes such feelings simply go too far. No more so, perhaps, than for practitioners serving in the army, navy and air […]
Disruption in healthcare: how can it improve population health?
After the recent European Health Forum Gastein, which had the theme of “A Healthy Dose of Disruption”, we have been reflecting on the real meaning of, and need for disruption in […]