In the midst of a blizzard of reports about the overuse of general practice it may seem inappropriate to highlight the problem of underuse, but many people are still presenting […]
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Amitava Banerjee: Institutional racism is still a major problem in the NHS
It is time to do better, says Amitava Banerjee […]
Nick Mays and Nick Black: The NHS faces bigger threats than ACOs
One noteworthy feature of the innovation of the organisation of services in the English NHS is the fascination with the US and the borrowing of its ideas, models of care, […]
Chris Ham and Anna Charles: Accountable care is a promising way of integrating care
Campaigners have launched judicial reviews of a proposed contract designed to enable NHS commissioners to procure care from accountable care organisations. The contract would allow these organisations to take responsibility […]
Avoiding blame and liability is vital to learning from errors and engineering a safer NHS
Helgi Johannsson and William Rook Hadiza Bawa-Garba, a trainee paediatrician who was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter over the death of Jack Adcock, a 6 year old boy, was struck […]
Miriam Fine-Goulden: Adults are just big children—lessons from paediatric medicine
One of the earliest adages drummed into trainees in paediatrics is the advice and warning: “children are not small adults.” The implication is that we cannot simply scale down what […]
Harrison Carter: Asking medical students to volunteer in A&E paints a woeful picture of the NHS
Medical students have similar asks to their senior colleagues: to have adequate time and resources to look after patients in the way they deserve […]
Jeremy Taylor: There are reasons for patients to welcome Hunt’s return to the Department of Health and Social Care
What, as patients, are we to make of the re-appointment of Jeremy Hunt, yet again, to the government’s health brief? […]
Paul Burstow: Social care is more than just speeding up hospital discharge
Jeremy Hunt remains at the helm of the Department of Health—an announcement that last week generated a largely predictable and mostly tribal response. By making Hunt the secretary of state […]
Martin McKee: Too big to fail? The Carillion affair exposes wider failings of governance
Carillion, an outsourcing company that had become a major provider of support services in the NHS and other sectors of the economy has joined a select group of once great […]