Long waiting times are detrimental for patients and healthcare workers […]
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Amar Alwitry: Improving clinical review of incidents and clinician to clinician learning
We are human and we err. As a clinician we will face clinical errors which cause a patient to come to harm. We pass that information and learning on to […]
Bruce Guthrie: Where next for the Quality and Outcomes Framework?
The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is still one of the world’s largest healthcare pay-for-performance programmes, unrivalled in scope and scale. In 2004, practices and general practitioners were promised substantial […]
The words we use matter—why we shouldn’t use the term ”illegal migrant”
Talking about migrants and migration requires careful choice of words […]
Kathryn Harrison: Social prescribing—let’s not leap in without the evidence
We need to provide patients and their GPs the time and space to build therapeutic relationships […]
Charging for maternity care: How did the “hostile environment” go this far?
Vulnerable women are bearing the brunt, say Neal Russell, Sophie Windsor, and Susan Bewley […]
Agnes Arnold-Forster and Alison Moulds: Medical women in popular fiction
We need to transform cultural narratives to address inequalities in medicine […]
Samir Dawlatly: The NHS needs a Reformation, not reform
One of the foremost concerns about the NHS, which has led to the formation of a number of pressure groups, is the worry that it is slowly being privatised. It […]
Asif Munaf: Medicine—another bastion of the UK’s class divide?
Doctors should help students who lack the necessary support to navigate the tricky road towards medicine […]
Public health must not slip off the radar during Brexit negotiations
Grace Norman and Mark Weiss Earlier this year, when the then EU (Withdrawal) Bill was debated at length in the House of Lords, the Faculty of Public Health found itself […]