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Anne Marie Rafferty: Whose responsibility is the workforce anyway?
It’s the workforce stupid! That is the key message of the Nuffield Report, “Reshaping the workforce to deliver the care patients need.” Workforce solutions are rarely quick fixes so policy […]
Soumyadeep Bhaumik’s review of South Asian medical papers—May 2016
It is summer in South Asia, and it seems to be getting hotter than ever before (though I have been spared this year). Climate change is expected to have major […]
Neel Sharma: We need to understand the real life applications of technology in medical education
Technology as we all know has caused significant movement in medical education. In reality this was not a desire of our own as doctors, but was brought to us courtesy […]
Paul Hunter: Zika virus would be able to spread in Europe
Zika virus is not new. Last year, when I was asked if I knew of an expert on the disease in the UK, I searched for papers written by an author […]
Rebecca Coombes: Beware the medicalisation of female genital cutting
I met two remarkable women this week. Actually, I met many such females at the vast Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen—obstetricians, lawyers, midwives, and former presidents (including a possible future […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—23 May 2016
NEJM 19 May 2016 Vol 374 Danazol & the Norns 1922 In early European mythology, life was seen as a fragile string, which could be cut by an arbitrary force […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Political personification
Having deconstructed part of the Conservative Party’s 2015 manifesto in last week’s blog, I thought that I ought to extend the favour this week to the Labour Party’s 2015 manifesto. […]
John Appleby: New NHS inflation figures underline funding pressures facing the NHS
The latest Quarterly Monitoring Report from the King’s Fund surveying NHS trust finance directors reveals deepening pessimism about local finances and concern about the outturn for the current financial year. New NHS […]
Trish Groves and David Moher: How to get published
In the run up to Evidence Live 2016, we are running a series of blogs by the conference speakers discussing what they will be talking about at the conference. The […]