The nomination deadline for the next director general of the WHO has passed and six of WHO’s Member States have sent in nomination papers for their respective candidates. Three of […]
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Andrew Green: Patients, GPs, and private medical insurance
You know, it’s hard not to feel sorry for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). Set up to allow GPs to commission services for their patients—as the ones with the best knowledge […]
Matthew Honeyman: Saving paper, saving money, or transforming care?
Yesterday we published a briefing on the digital agenda that has been pursued by the NHS since 2013 – the year Secretary of State for health Jeremy Hunt challenged the NHS to […]
Tong Yongjun: Stop killing Chinese doctors
In less than three months four Chinese doctors have been killed by patients. In one case, a general physician’s 10 year-old child was also stabbed. Violence towards doctors is nothing […]
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In 2006 India experienced one of its worse chikungunya outbreaks, when more than 1.5m cases were reported. The current outbreak in Delhi has claimed at least 15 lives so far, and the city’s […]
Jeanne Lenzer: Clinton and Trump on healthcare
The Presidential Debate That Wasn’t The 90 minute presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump ended last night without a single word about healthcare. Yet two-thirds of voters said […]
Catherine Hough-Telford: How have pediatricians’ experiences of vaccine delays and refusals changed?
It’s unbelievable that one of the most remarkable innovations of our time—one that has prevented millions of deaths—has come under so much fire by a cacophony of misinformed voices in […]
Richard Smith: Being creative in developing primary care
Primary care covers the whole population, but it’s underfunded and has increasing difficulty recruiting doctors; and there are worries about equity and the quality of care. This could be the […]
Paul Wicks: Google’s Deepmind health group invites patient participation
In the aftermath of some difficult questions posed by privacy advocates around the Royal Free’s pilot of Deepmind’s Streams app, this week Deepmind Health invited over 120 patients, patient advocates, […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—26 September 2016
NEJM 22 Sep 2016 Vol 375 Learning to love data parasites Back in January, the chief editor of the NEJM joined many other leading journal editors in signing a radical […]