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Richard Lehman and Magdalena Skrybant: A day at the PROMs
PROs are vital and flexible tools for designing clinical care to suit the needs and priorities of individual patients […]
Saffron Cordery and Suzie Bailey: Breaking the leadership mould
Last month, The King’s Fund and NHS Providers published their report looking at leadership in today’s NHS […]
Unreported trial of the week: Nicotine replacement for smoking cessation during pregnancy (NCT01656733)
Brian MacKenna, Nicholas DeVito, and Ben Goldacre Background The US FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA 2007) requires certain clinical trials to report their results onto ClinicalTrials.gov within one year of completion. […]
Giovanni Rezza: Mandatory vaccinations in Italy—scientific evidence and political controversies
Vaccine mandates have become increasingly politicised in Italy, but policy must be guided by evidence […]
Colin Hutchinson: Our profession in today’s NHS—Doctors for the NHS essay competition
From its conception seventy years ago, the NHS has experienced tensions between the medical profession, the government of the day, and the civil servants that administer it. At various times […]
Richard Smith: A baby dies of measles
I had measles as a child. My brothers had measles. Everybody, as I remember, had measles as a child in Rotherhithe in the 1950s. But I don’t remember anybody dying, […]
Helen Macdonald: Overdiagnosis and the fear of being “normal”
Helen Macdonald discusses the key points from Day 1 of Preventing Overdiagnosis […]
Richard Lehman’s sunshine act
Alison Tonks speaks to Richard Lehman about writing research reviews and what he’ll be doing next […]
Ian Morris: We need to stop talking about GPs being “full time” or “part time”
Following the recent King’s Fund report on the future GP workforce, and subsequent press pieces discussing the increasing number of “part time GPs,” maybe the time has come to consider […]