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Clinical teams are navigating a maze of national quality indicators
Quality indicators tend to proliferate over time in health systems, and the NHS in England is no exception. Tracking and measuring the quality of care has multiple functions, including holding […]
Disadvantages faced by poorer medical students must be challenged
We could start by challenging the assumption that all medical students and junior doctors have a financial safety net to fall into, says Anna Harvey and Declan Murphy […]
Access to healthcare data is only of benefit if it can improve disease outcomes
Being part of the patient public group of the UK Colorectal Cancer Intelligence Hub has helped these authors recognise the power of healthcare data in research The collection and use […]
Is palliative care having an existential crisis?
Is palliative care suffering from “chronic niceness”? What is its future? Lucy Selman, Libby Sallnow, Ros Taylor, Seamus O’Mahony, and Richard Smith discuss […]
Trish Greenhalgh: Towards an institute for patient-led research
“More powerful than the march of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come” – Victor Hugo The intellectual legacy of Rosamund Snow Rosamund Snow was a social scientist […]
The name game: A call for change to psychopharmacological nomenclature in clinical practice
The old nomenclature we have for drugs used for mental health conditions may hinder patients’ understanding of their medication, say Kaleen N Hayes and Mina Tadrous […]
Doctors with drink problems: letting go of denial
It is five years since my husband died. He was an alcoholic. He was a very talented man, a brilliant clinician, articulate, funny, intuitive, creative, kind. Watching him slowly kill […]
The role of the arts within health
In 2007, Sir Nigel Crisp, then NHS chief executive, published a report concluding “arts and health are, and should be firmly recognised as being, integral to health, healthcare provision and […]
Ian Hamilton: New guidelines for prescribing medicinal cannabis—another dashed hope for patients
New guidance from NICE leaves us no clearer about the effectiveness of medicinal cannabis, says Ian Hamilton […]