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Derek Summerfield: NHS antidepressant prescribing—what do we get for £266 million per year?
The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the media routinely state that there is an “epidemic” of mental disorder—1 in 4 people in the UK, with 3 in 4 said not […]
Richard Smith: Spreading innovation in the NHS through social franchising
It is comparatively easy to find funding for the randomised trials that may or may not show the effectiveness of innovations, but much harder to fund scale-up […]
Matt Morgan and Peter Brindley: Medical conference emojis—which one are you?
Matt Morgan and Peter Brindley have been studying human doctors in their native conference environment […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—26 February 2018
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Anya de Iongh: Are patients and carers healthcare’s untapped workforce?
On Wednesday 31 January, the dark and cold weather was a contrast to the warmth, passion, and dynamism of the contributions to The BMJ’s first Twitter chat of 2018. 800 plus […]
Nick Hopkinson: Making sense of e-cigarettes—Public Health England’s review of the evidence
“I switched over to vaping but someone told me they were just as bad as cigarettes so I went back to smoking again.” A depressing thing to hear in a […]
Neville Goodman’s metaphor watch: The whole spectrum
Spectrum originally meant the same as spectre: a ghost. It was appropriated by Newton in 1671 to describe how sunlight passing through a prism “exhibited… a Spectrum of divers colours” […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Medical catachresis—ambiguity
Catachresis, the mistaken use of one term for another, can arise through confusibility, which I discussed last week, or through ambiguity. Ambiguity (Latin amb-, implying both ways, + agere to […]
Compassionate leadership has a pivotal role in tackling bullying in healthcare
Bullying is a patient safety issue and often a signal of wider cultural issues within an organisation. Compassionate leadership can change culture, empower staff to speak up, and address bullying […]