“We don’t have thoughts of maintenance here in Sierra Leone. Few people have any idea of that. If you look at the cars driving around, you can see. I wonder […]
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Emily Spry: Free healthcare for Under 5s in Sierra Leone
It’s a new year at the Children’s Hospital and everyone is cheerful. The figures from the last months of 2009 suggest that inpatient mortality has decreased substantially, compared to the […]
Stephen Ginn on energy use in hospitals
According to a recent article in the Guardian newspaper I’ve worked in the two most polluting buildings in the UK. Over the course of one year the Royal London Hospital […]
Joe Collier on big pharma vs the mobile phone: let battle commence
I strongly believe we are heading for one almighty battle. Millions and millions of pounds have been spent by the drugs industry in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. Much more […]
Peter Lapsley on media bandwagons
When asked whether they shape public opinion or reflect it, journalists working for national news media tend to affect wide-eyed innocence, insisting that they simply report the facts and that […]
Emily Spry on wizards and wheelbarrows
Worryingly, Freetown is starting to look normal. Clearly, this needs correction. So, on the long commute back from the hospital on Friday, I tried to look again with fresh eyes […]
Louise Kenny’s drawer of misunderstanding
A few years ago I lived in a flat with a dear friend Hannah, who like me is a collector of junk and disastrous at keeping things such like wires, […]
David Pencheon: Not waving but talking
You may be aware that the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), BMJ Editor-in-Chief Fiona Godlee, and the Campaign for Greener Healthcare hosted a meeting of health professionals at the RCN […]
Emily Spry as a do-gooding know it all in Sierra Leone
I feel as if I have been in some kind of altered state since I arrived in Freetown ten weeks ago. After an extended high, where I was bursting with […]
Tony Waterston on a health movement at the Wave
At the weekend we attended the most profound and moving event for health progress that we can remember. This took place at the Royal College of Nursing – founded in […]