Last month, The King’s Fund and NHS Providers published their report looking at leadership in today’s NHS […]
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Colin Hutchinson: Our profession in today’s NHS—Doctors for the NHS essay competition
From its conception seventy years ago, the NHS has experienced tensions between the medical profession, the government of the day, and the civil servants that administer it. At various times […]
Ian Morris: We need to stop talking about GPs being “full time” or “part time”
Following the recent King’s Fund report on the future GP workforce, and subsequent press pieces discussing the increasing number of “part time GPs,” maybe the time has come to consider […]
Samir Dawlatly: We need better ways to measure GP workload
If no-one knows how much work is being done and the toll it takes, then it becomes impossible to define how much workload is safe for a GP to do […]
The long road to justice for Hadiza Bawa-Garba
Jenny Vaughan discusses the implications of this case and what we must learn from it […]
Would technology enabled remote consulting save time and add value in primary care?
Rising multimorbidity makes the evaluation and adoption of potentially time saving technologies ever more necessary, say Brian McKinstry and colleagues […]
Agnes Arnold-Forster: Doctors’ wellbeing—learning from the past can help improve the future
Much of the current focus on doctors’ emotional health is preoccupied with piecemeal solutions […]
Matt Morgan and Peter Brindley: Time for tough talk with the NHS—equality or longevity?
It may be time for different salaries for different specialties in different locations to plug extreme rota gaps, say Matt Morgan and Peter Brindley […]
Rosalind Raine on Michael Marmot: A career devoted to tackling social injustice and health
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is highlighting seven research legends whose work has shaped the NHS, as part of its celebrations for the NHS’s 70th birthday and the […]
Andrew S Al-Rais: The art of shared learning—it’s good to talk
Opportunities for shared learning are increasingly being lost in NHS hospitals, but we need them now more than ever […]