Doctors generally know about patient safety, how to undertake safe procedures or recognise unsafe practice and many doctors raise concerns over unsafe environments. It is important to doctors that they […]
Patient and public perspectives
Jane Feinmann: Taking complaints seriously
I’m at my GP surgery on the point of becoming a nuisance patient—it seems I have all the qualifications. Five years ago I was discharged from hospital after a medical […]
“e-Patient Dave” deBronkart: “My Health: Upgraded” is a clear vision from a young futurist
In my work to understand how medicine saved me from Stage IV renal cell carcinoma in 2007, yet so often falls catastrophically short, I’ve looked for causes of both success […]
Ceinwen Giles: The puzzle of co-production with patients
The NHS Health and Care Expo, held in Manchester last week, aims to be a leading event in healthcare. Although it primarily features speakers from across the health, voluntary, and […]
Mike Kendall: What do the new NICE guidelines mean for people living with type 1 diabetes?
As a patient involved in the development process, I hope that these guidelines for Type 1 diabetes in adults have a powerful, positive effect on the lives of many living […]
A patient’s perspective: Dancing the dance
If I don’t dance to the tune of the care system I don’t get the care I need to survive. I need medicines and other stuff to live well, in […]
Jonathon Hope: What happens when doctors don’t know best?
A recent story of how a teenage cancer patient’s online research of symptoms was dismissed by doctors before death raises the question of where patients go to get information when […]
Lyndal Trevena: What’s happening on Day 1 of #ISDMISEHC Sydney 2015
The first day of ISDMISEHC is over and synthesising the issues from the Twitter feed and presentations today is quite a challenge. Given that 300 people are exchanging ideas and […]
Lyndal Trevena: Bringing evidence based practice and shared decision making together
As I write this blog, research teams from the four corners of the globe are travelling to Sydney for the first joint conference of the International Shared Decision Making (ISDM) […]
Amy Price and Marilyn Mann on the pros of patient peer review
Without peer review The BMJ could not survive. The journal uses reviewers to help assess the quality and usefulness of about 8000 papers per year. In […]