It’s almost impossible to investigate suspected fraud unless you have access to the raw data. That may seem pretty obvious, but it raises the more interesting question of who should […]
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Veena Rao: Food security by decree
I wrote a BMJ article about the Food Security Bill in India after it was introduced in parliament in December 2011. On 5 July 2013 the National Food Security Act 2013, […]
Regina Keith: How to prevent 804,000 children under 5 dying
As congratulations come in from around the world to the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge on the safe delivery of their son, all parents would share the hope that […]
Alejandro Madrazo Lajous: Little Uruguay’s big experiment
All eyes are on the tiny South American nation of Uruguay this week following its historic approval for the world’s first nationally controlled marijuana market. While the plan still […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—5 August 2013
NEJM 1 Aug 2013 Vol 369 397 Shared decision making at the end of life is probably the toughest challenge in medicine. It requires good evidence about a wide range […]
Aser Garcia Rada: Ideological limits to public assisted reproduction in Spain
Since the conservative government of Mariano Rajoy´s People´s Party (PP) took office with an absolute majority on November 2011, healthcare has repeatedly been the setting for implementing ideological decisions that often […]
Readers’ editor: The Liverpool Care Pathway—anyone care outside the UK?
Columnist Charles Moore asked in The Spectator magazine last week if the Liverpool Care Pathway might have inspired more confidence if it had been called, say, the Oxford Care Pathway. […]
Sonia Roschnik: Why sustainability is core to health
Welcome to a series of blogs on sustainable healthcare that look at health, sustainability, and the interplay between the two. The blogs share ideas from experts across the healthcare field, […]
Chris Naylor: Why we cannot afford to be pessimistic about CCGs
Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a lot stacked against them. They have taken control of the majority of the NHS budget at a time when financial pressures are mounting and […]
Nassim Parvizi on being a junior doctor on the Keogh Review
As junior doctors, we all see and hear things that work well or that could work better as we rotate between different departments across a number of hospital trusts. So […]