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Richard Smith: Searching for an effective system to manage the world’s biggest killer
Hypertension is the world’s leading cause of premature death, ahead even of tobacco and obesity, and most of those deaths occur in poor countries. Yet the health system in most […]
The collapse of Trumpcare and the rise of single payer
Single payer bills signal a new era in American healthcare politics […]
Niall Dickson: The CQC’s annual report should cause everyone to sit up and listen
The CQC’s annual State of Care report for 2017 says future NHS quality is precarious—but is anyone listening? […]
Diana Zuckerman: How to kill Obamacare—death by 1,000 cuts?
As a presidential candidate and as president of the US, Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that “Obamacare is imploding.” For months, the Trump Administration has tried to make that prediction come […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—17 October 2017
If you think medicine is messy now, just you wait till it becomes “precise.” […]
Richard Vautrey: A state backed indemnity scheme for GPs—fixing a broken system
The ultimate goal must be to remove any difference between indemnity fees paid by doctors in hospital and those who work in general practice […]
William Cayley: Focus on investing in health, not on cost containment
No one wants a bankrupt healthcare system, but we need to care for those who are sick or in need […]
David McCoy: Why nuclear disarmament would keep us safer
The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). It came as a surprise to many people who had not heard of […]
Ara Darzi: There is huge potential to apply behavioural economics in health
Harnessing the insights from behavioural science could yield major gains […]