In order to improve health outcomes for Indigenous people they must be involved in the creation and implementation of policies, this means a commitment to indigenous languages, say Summer Finlay […]
Guest writers
Virginia Minogue and Bill Wells: Patients and the public are essential to reducing research waste
To maintain efficiency in medical research we have to facilitate and empower participants, patients, and the public to recognise waste and take action, say Virginia Minogue and Bill Wells […]
Zack Hassan: Digital literacy—a blind spot in medical education?
The medical world is abuzz with the potential of new technologies, but to translate this into better healthcare, medical training has to keep pace, says Zack Hassan […]
Kate Harding: The complicated but necessary business of moving forward after loss
My husband, an anaesthetist and intensive care consultant, took his own life on 23 October 2017. Now and again, I speak publicly about Richard’s death, usually to fellow doctors, sometimes […]
Claire Hilton: Caring for people who are mentally ill—lessons from a tragic past
Claire Hilton, the Royal College of Psychiatrists’s first ever historian in residence, looks at what the mental healthcare of the past can teach us about mental health services today […]
Karen Burns: Ten things that I wish I had known as a woman entering academic medicine
Despite the growing number of women in medical academia, there is still a long way to go before gender equity is achieved. Karen Burns gives advice to those women who […]
Rupert McShane: A drug not a miracle—why we need a new system for monitoring ketamine
Rupert McShane, chair of the ECT and Related Treatments Committee at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, outlines why a monitoring system for ketamine and esketamine is needed […]
The UK government’s “hostile environment” is harming public health
The enforcement of NHS collaboration with home office deportations is endangering vulnerable people and harming public health, say Sophie Weller and Rob Aldridge. […]
Patient involvement in PROMS—individual opportunity and strategic challenge
Patricia Holch, Roger Wilson, and Jennifer Bostock discuss the importance of patient reported outcome measures for achieving truly patient centred medicine […]
Paul Simpson: Why are the intros to academic articles so boring?
Tricks from storytelling could make articles more engaging, says Paul Simpson […]