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Patient and public perspectives

William Cayley: EBM—curing and comforting

June 20, 2014

A recent article in The BMJ on the crisis in evidence based medicine (EBM) did a great job of both summarizing challenges that have developed over the past 20 years, and […]

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Tessa Richards: Health 2.0—new technologies and e-patients

June 18, 2014

“All changed, changed utterly.” W B Yeats’s famous line was triggered by the Irish rebellion in 1916. Close to 100 years on, it could describe how digital technologies and social […]

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Angela Coulter: Person centred care—what works?

June 16, 2014

“There’s no evidence that it works.” In these days of evidence based medicine, that’s a real clincher—a good reason to avoid a treatment or procedure that offers no proven value. […]

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Ceinwen Giles: Patient leaders at the NHS Confederation Conference

June 10, 2014

As readers of The BMJ will know, leadership is a widely discussed and hotly debated topic across the NHS at the moment. It’s also a theme that permeated the NHS […]

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Bev Fitzsimons: Practical tools to improve patients’ experience

June 6, 2014

At the King’s Fund, we have spoken a lot about the benefits of collective leadership lately. With the challenges currently facing the NHS, leaders at all levels across organisations need […]

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Neal Maskrey: Seeing the world through a patient’s eyes

June 5, 2014

Captain Hawkeye Pierce of the 4077th MASH unit is one of the great fictional doctors. Battered by the US army, and brutalised by death and disfigurement in a war far […]

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Judith Hibbard: How do people become good managers of their own health?

May 19, 2014

Within the general population some people actively focus on reaching and maintaining good health, while others are more passive about the whole thing. So what makes the difference? Is learning […]

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Tessa Richards: The right to be supported to self manage disease

May 16, 2014

On the eve of the EU elections, reports and manifestos aimed at attracting the attention of newly elected MEPs and commission officials have been flowing thick and fast. A new […]

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Tessa Richards: “All I ask is that you listen”

April 14, 2014

If healthcare was a patient, the diagnosis would be multimorbidity. There is a near terminal mix of fragmentation of services, failure to listen and respond to patients concerns, lack of […]

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Tessa Richards: It’s time to turn healthcare upside down

March 21, 2014

March sees the picturesque town of Basel transformed as it celebrates Fastnacht. Masks are donned, people pour into the streets to the sound of piccolos and drums, and party. Transformation […]

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