If someone told you the world was ending and gave you ten minutes to fix it, you’d probably express some mild expletives. This is a complete exaggeration to vent my […]
NHS
Jan Filochowski: No room at the inn—the NHS today?
The NHS’s critical problem today is not that things are bad, it is that they are getting much worse at a very fast rate across the board. In 40 years involvement […]
Nick Hopkinson on Steve Biko, the NHS, and the mind of the oppressed
It would have been Steve Biko’s seventieth birthday this weekend. The anti-apartheid leader was beaten to death by the South African Police in a jail cell in 1977. His death […]
Kushal Patel: Pay inequity spells a winter of discontent for junior doctors
This past year has been particularly turbulent for junior doctors nationwide. Mired in a public standoff with the government and with lacklustre stop-start plans for industrial action, it has rendered […]
Saffron Cordery: Reasons for winter pressures—flying under the radar
For your average Joe Blow it must be hard to work out why, every winter, there is such a commotion about pressures in the health service and particularly in A&E. […]
Penny Pereira: Dr Flow—the role of the medical profession in improving flow
Packed waiting rooms, delays in getting results, ambulances queuing, patients and results getting “lost” in the system: the daily frustrations facing people using and working in the NHS have become […]
Elizabeth Anderson and Simon Bennett: Are we serious about changing culture?
Healthcare education has enormous capacity to equip future practitioners with the right mindset to promote supportive team-based cultures within the NHS. By this we mean that during training all practitioners […]
Gareth Iacobucci: Jeremy’s firm hand casts a shadow
Jeremy Hunt caught a few people off guard at this week’s NHS Providers conference when he unexpectedly announced a flurry of new policies. Those who have heard the health secretary give […]
Jonathan Glass: Irrational numbers in surgical training
I enjoy numbers. I enjoy the accuracy they provide; the guidance they give in the practise of clinical medicine; and, though very far from being a mathematician, I like reading […]
Delan Devakumar et al: Politicians need to first do no harm
It’s been a monumental year. The UK’s decision to leave the European Union and the Chilcot report on the Iraq war prompt us to wonder why these self-inflicted problems ever […]