The junior doctors (pictured) vote to strike. The BMA seeks to resolve the dispute with Jeremy Hunt through the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service Acas. Not before time. He rejects […]
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Alice Gerth: Strike action is not the answer
The strength of feeling of anger within the healthcare profession is so strong that those not planning to take industrial action are reluctant to speak out. I want the public […]
Arun Jithendra on reducing tobacco production in India
India is the third largest tobacco producer and exporter of tobacco globally. Flue Cured Virginia (FCV) tobacco, which is used in the manufacturing of cigarettes, is one of the main […]
Latest spending review: Hail to the chiefs . . . but major challenges remain
As the details of the spending review were announced this week, the scale of the achievement by Jeremy Hunt and Simon Stevens in securing a frontloaded NHS settlement became clearer. […]
Tony Rao: Politics, persuasion, and pickets
“What makes the current dispute all the more remarkable is that in 1975, only 56% of junior doctors voted in favour of industrial action.” Junior doctors accept their lot with […]
Terence Gibson: Pulling through an Ebola outbreak
The King’s Sierra Leone Partnership (KSLP) aims to strengthen Sierra Leone’s health system by working with local partners to improve training, clinical services, policy, and research. Following on from Colin […]
Henry Murphy: The Moderate Doctor
Jeremy Hunt recently told Twitter that “Moderate doctors must defeat the militants,” quoting the title of a Times article about the current war between the Department of Health and the […]
Alisha Patel: Why sustainability should be important to medical students
Medical school can feel like a production line of future doctors, equipping us with the skills to diagnose and manage patients with a vast number of illnesses. But if we […]
Richard Smith: The NHS—a terrible thought
There is great reluctance in Britain to consider any other kind of funding for the NHS apart from taxation, but we are surely close to a time when we will […]
Meena P: A lack of resources for community health nursing in India
With a shortage of doctors, it is the nurses and other allied health professionals who run the show in many of the primary healthcare settings in India. Nurses make up a […]