Channel 4 recently aired a documentary by Jamie Oliver called Jamie’s Sugar Rush. Following on from his successful advocacy aimed at improving the nutritional quality of school meals he has […]
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Georg Röggla: Refugees and civil society
The migration crisis has reached Central Europe. About 10 000 migrants arrived in Vienna within a few hours on Saturday, most of them on their way to Germany. The situation […]
The BMJ Today: Three views on the “weekend effect”
• Updated analysis of weekend hospital admissions Nick Freemantle and colleagues report on an update of their 2010 study of all NHS hospital admissions in England which showed that admission […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Medical onomatopoeia
Seeking early medical words in the Old English dictionary known as the Epinal glossary, I was not surprised to find that one of the dozen examples I unearthed was onomatopoeic: […]
Abi Rimmer: Seven day services lack definition
What exactly are “seven day services?” This is something that I have been wondering ever since David Cameron announced in March that the NHS would run a seven day service […]
Charles Gore: Making the elimination of viral hepatitis a reality
Currently 400 million people worldwide are living with either hepatitis B or hepatitis C, with no country being left unaffected. For far too long we have allowed 1.4 million people to […]
The BMJ Today: Online medical records, confusing mortality figures, and deciding not to quit
• Patients promised online access to their medical records by 2018 Today, The BMJ carries the news that England’s health secretary Jeremy Hunt has pledged that all patients in England […]
Simon Nicholas Williams: Big Food could take the fizz out of Jamie Oliver’s soft drink tax
In his new documentary, Sugar Rush [airing tonight], Jamie Oliver pledges to “be a pain in the arse to the government” on the issue of soft drink taxes. Unfortunately for […]
The BMJ Today: Where now for seven day services?
• What next for contract negotiations? As the deadline by which health secretary Jeremy Hunt (pictured) said he would impose new contracts on junior doctors and consultants approaches, Abi Rimmer […]
A patient’s perspective: Dancing the dance
If I don’t dance to the tune of the care system I don’t get the care I need to survive. I need medicines and other stuff to live well, in […]