Last year the King’s Fund ran an essay competition for contributions to its series “the NHS if,” exploring hypothetical futures for the health service. Here, we publish the runner-up entry. […]
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Paul Glasziou: How to hide trial results in plain sight
Paul Glasziou discusses why trial results need to be better presented, so that readers can understand and act on the results. […]
Elizabeth Loder: The persistent problem of unregistered clinical trials
How can we get to zero unregistered clinical trials? Elizabeth Loder discusses. […]
Forgetting Aleppo: Fatalism has no place in this tragedy
William Faulkner wrote, “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practise it.” Such freedom cannot be better encapsulated than by the herculean health workers in […]
Amar Mashru: Charging overseas patients for NHS care risks blaming the outsider
England’s health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has just announced that from April this year, overseas patients will be charged upfront for non-urgent NHS care. Whenever a new government NHS policy hits […]
Ashish Jha: Where next for Obamacare?
Since its inception, nearly every member of the Republican Party has run vowing to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Ashish Jha looks at what might happen next. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—6 February 2017
NEJM 2 Feb 2017 Vol 376 Adding bicalutamide to RT for recurrent prostate cancer So far, this year is proving a good one for urology studies. Here are the follow-up […]
William Cayley: We must not forget the forgotten
A week ago, the news was awash with shock, dismay, and outrage over President Trump’s executive order of 27 January, which temporarily suspended the United States’s refugee program and indefinitely […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Selenium
I have previously written about cadmium and lithium, two of three elements that were discovered in 1817. The third, selenium, was discovered by Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779–1848), who is also […]
Richard Smith: Dumfries and Galloway NHS 5—The new hospital of 2017 replaces the new one of 1975
Richard Smith visited and wrote about the NHS in Dumfries and Galloway in 1980, 1990, and 1999, and this series of blogs describes what he found in 2016. A feature […]