Technological innovations are rapidly being introduced into healthcare, with the aim of improving patients’ health and promoting self-management. Examples include the development of new ambulatory technologies that can assist patients […]
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Breakfast versus lunch, which packs the biggest punch?
Under the banner of “Fairer Funding,” the Tory manifesto outlines plans to change the current universal free school lunch system for infant pupils to a means tested programme plus universal […]
Nick Clegg: Why the Liberal Democrats believe a legal, regulated cannabis market would improve public health
This is a debate about the merits of regulation versus a system without any control, says Nick Clegg […]
Tanu Pramanik: Teaching caring and compassionate communication
Work environments that support caring and compassionate communication with patients provide foundations on which high quality, patient centred care can flourish. Nothing tests communication skills so much as breaking bad […]
Hannah Wilson: Feeding back on feedback
We are all asked for feedback. We all receive feedback and then feedback on the feedback. This almost obsessive behaviour with feedback, in many cases, means the emphasis on the […]
Iain Overton: What can Manchester learn from healthcare responses to other Western terror attacks?
Iain Overton discusses how health services responded to the London 7/7 bombings and the Boston Marathon attack. […]
Sarah Walpole: Taking risks and making changes—lessons from Brazil
“For people to change, they need to connect,” Professor Pavao said to me on the car journey into UNESP university, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. It was my second day of […]
James Partridge: Face equality day and its challenge for healthcare professionals
Today, 26th May 2017, is Face Equality Day—the first in the UK. People all over the country will be wearing the unique butterfly that is the Changing Faces logo on their […]
Colin Drummond: Cuts to addiction services are a false economy
“Savings” in specialist services are increasing pressure elsewhere in the NHS, says Colin Drummond. […]
Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar: Five tasks for the new WHO DG
Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar set out five tasks for the newly elected DG of the WHO […]