As both the BMA and the Royal College of General Practitioners move towards seeking their members’ views on assisted dying, I have been reflecting on some of the misinformation I continue […]
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Graham Winyard: Moving away from the competitive market in the NHS
The Health Select Committee last week supported legislative changes requested by NHS England to promote the delivery of integrated healthcare. Giving evidence at one of their enquiry sessions I was […]
Sarah Markham: We have to learn from homicides committed by mental health patients
The reduction of data collection of homicides committed by mental health patients is short-sighted and detrimental to the safety of patients and wider society, says Sarah Markham […]
Sharif Al-Ghazal: Healthcare has been weaponised in the Syrian conflict
The targeting of Syria’s medical infrastructure is designed to terrorise the population, and is deepening the humanitarian crisis, says Sharif Al-Ghazal […]
Jane Wilcock: The digitalisation of NHS patient care should be medically tested
The rapid digitalisation of the NHS must be robust in identifying the benefits, failures, and risks of new and existing technologies, says Jane Wilcock […]
Caitjan Gainty and Grazia De Michele: The disease of “at risk”
Caitjan Gainty and Grazia De Michele explore modern medicine’s complicity in creating uncertainty and its unwillingness, once created, to address it […]
The healthcare community needs to champion healthy and sustainable urban living spaces
We need to look beyond disease and individual sector silos and take into account the potential of the social and built environment to both prevent disease, and also contribute to […]
Ian Hamilton: The gaps in our understanding of cannabis dependence
Admitting where our knowledge of cannabis is limited is as important as acknowledging what strong research evidence can make us certain of, says Ian Hamilton […]
Drugs are decriminalised in the UK—if you are a white, privileged MP
It is time to end this hypocrisy, says Niamh Eastwood […]
The harms to health caused by aviation noise require urgent action
In 1905, the Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Robert Koch wrote “The day will come when man will have to fight noise as inexorably as cholera and the plague.” Koch was before […]