I attended a remarkable reception with a focus on health and migration at the UK embassy in Vienna last week. The ambassador Susan le Jeune d’Allegeershecque shared her personal experiences of when […]
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The recent unfolding of a five year old story of two million doses of vaccines illegally procured and sold across China is a confidence breaker. Worse, it is not a new episode […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—16 May 2016
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The BMJ research editors: Why The BMJ rejected a “weekend effect” paper
Recently, perceived shortcomings of The BMJ peer review system have been extensively discussed on Twitter and elsewhere because we rejected a research paper by Rachel Meacock and colleagues examining the […]
Anna Sutherland: Hospital at home increases the chances of dying at home
It’s Dying Matters Awareness Week, an opportunity to place the importance of talking about dying, death and bereavement on the national agenda and to share Cochrane evidence that may help […]
Jeffrey Aronson: Mandates and manifestos
I recently heard Jeremy Hunt, UK health secretary, on the Today programme claiming that the Government has a mandate for the controversial contract that it wants junior hospital doctors to sign. […]
Jeanne Lenzer: The Backstory—Is US healthcare a frontier for a new civil rights movement?
When the Lown Institute first signaled its plan to build a “movement” four years ago, it seemed to be an unlikely group to succeed. The founding conference was attended largely […]
The chief executive’s tale: Exit interviews
People always surprise you. When I started interviewing retiring NHS chief executives to support a project with the King’s Fund, I had several preconceptions that were quickly disproved. The first preconception […]
Billy Boland: QI forum
It’s been really rewarding discussing quality improvement (QI) with colleagues at my trust. We’ve set up a few different resources for people to make use of. My favourite of these […]
Post-it note triage: A little documentation, a big difference
In January this year I spent a fortnight volunteering at the Moria Refugee Camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. At the time Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was the primary […]