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Kailash Chand on Section 75 and competition for NHS services
NHS competition is back in the headlines, apparently the subject of more tension within the coalition: “Lib Dem pressure forces Hunt to rewrite NHS regulations,” and “New rules on competition […]
Anna Allan: Training? What training?
The junior doctor’s applications process has metamorphosed from an individual interview process, to modernising medical careers (MMC), to the foundation programme application system. There has been a big push towards […]
Readers’ editor blog: A BMJ poll about Sir David Nicholson
Sir David Nicholson, head of the NHS in England and chief executive of the NHS Commissioning Board, has faced repeated calls for his resignation after publication of the Francis Report […]
Anita Jain: A roundtable on primary healthcare in India
Coinciding with the visit of the British prime minister, David Cameron, to India last week, a business seminar was held in Mumbai to identify opportunities for health sector partnerships. Meeta […]
Peter Bailey on the change of culture needed after the Francis report
How could they have behaved like that? It’s inhuman! Reading the Francis report, I was appalled and shamed by the neglect and lack of care to which patients in the […]
Desmond O’Neill: Ageing with Keith Jarrett
The last time I heard Keith Jarrett was just over thirty years ago, a distraction from the tensions of final med with some fellow medical students. Even the choir balcony […]
Richard Smith: Are Glaswegians the Aboriginals of Europe?
Harry Burns, the chief medical officer of Scotland and one of medicine’s philosophers, has spent a lot of time trying to understand why Scotland has such poor health and what […]
Daniel O’Brien: Buruli ulcer in a brave new world
My recent visit to the Buruli ulcer ward run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Akonolinga Hospital, Cameroon, was both inspiring and disturbing. The care provided was state of the art, […]
Pritpal S Tamber: The fallacy of user interfaces and big data
I’m lucky enough to spend my workdays around the kinetic kids in Google Campus, London. From what I can tell, they sit about hacking code to see what they might […]