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The UK government’s “hostile environment” is harming public health
The enforcement of NHS collaboration with home office deportations is endangering vulnerable people and harming public health, say Sophie Weller and Rob Aldridge. […]
Patient involvement in PROMS—individual opportunity and strategic challenge
Patricia Holch, Roger Wilson, and Jennifer Bostock discuss the importance of patient reported outcome measures for achieving truly patient centred medicine […]
Emmanuel Macron: Inspiring global action
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on 25 September 2018, France’s President Emmanuel Macron called for radical change and urgent action on the world’s health inequalities. […]
Richard Smith: Must the seriously ill and the bereaved be exempt from criticism?
Free and open public debate becomes impossible if all those who are seriously ill or bereaved must be beyond criticism, says Richard Smith […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Core outcome sets and harms in clinical trials
Last week I discussed composite outcomes and the initiative known as COMET (Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials). In doing so I asked how many core outcome sets (lists of […]
Sarah Markham: Tracking trends in mental health provision to improve outcomes
New publicly available data tool: Mental Health Watch, is already helping to identify issues in mental health provision on a local and national level, says Sarah Markham […]
Implications of “no deal” Brexit for orphan and paediatric medicines
In the event of a “no deal” Brexit some of the UK’s most vulnerable, especially children with rare diseases, may lose access to the best medicine available, say Stuart Elborn, […]
Elize Massard da Fonseca: Brazil’s HIV/AIDS policy is under siege
Brazil’s government is embarking on changes that risk dismantling the successful HIV and AIDS policy the country has spearheaded, says Elize Massard da Fonseca […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—18 July 2019
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]