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Ahmed Rashid on “Goldilocks Medicine”: the quest for “just right”
Week after week, NHS general practitioners receive messages about changes they should consider making to their clinical practice. These messages come from national and local guidelines, research papers, blogs, social […]
Andrew Moscrop: Should we extend NHS charges for overseas visitors and migrants?
Jeremy Hunt has been talking “tough measures.” Not junior doctors’ contracts, but migrants. Overseas visitors and migrants who get sick in Britain should be charged for using A&E and primary […]
BMA research into end of life care: Consulting patients is a step in the right direction
The BMA’s consultation with doctors and members of the public on their views and perceptions of end of life care and the assisted dying debate is a welcome step forward. […]
Richard White et al: Efficiency savings in wound care must not compromise patient care
The Department of Health together with the NHS Supply Chain are trying to push through Generic Specifications (known as the Carter Report) where the specification criteria can be applied so […]
John Hughes: Why dying should be everyone’s business
Like all non-specialist, palliative care healthcare professionals, doctors have varying degrees of willingness to broach difficult conversations with patients and families, particularly if it is a conversation that is about […]
Billy Boland: The trouble with resolutions…
At this most reflective time of year, I found myself in a conversation last week about New Year’s resolutions. Thinking about my most and least successful attempts it occurred to […]
Rosamund Snow: A year of patients’ thoughts
In January 2015 we launched What Your Patient Is Thinking (#WYPIT), a series entirely written and edited by patients and carers. Not many patients get a chance to express their […]
Neville Goodman’s Metaphor Watch: Rocks, horns, devils, and hard places
A dilemma is not just an irritating problem, like trying to decide whether to go to Costa or Starbucks, which anyway gives the option of not having coffee at all. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—18 January 2016
NEJM 14 Jan 2016 Vol 374 SDM: no looking back 104 There are two interesting Perspective pieces in this week’s NEJM, both about individualizing care. The first is about shared […]