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Nicola While: The EU impact on UK healthcare
The May 2010 coalition agreement in the UK promised to examine the balance of competences between Britain and the European Union (EU) with a view to assessing how the UK’s […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Jonathan Miller, Maeve Binchy, and the neurophysiology of general practice
Jonathan Miller is in the news again. His biography pushed him back into the limelight, and although the media focused on his ongoing spat with Sir Peter Hall, it reminded […]
Douglas Noble: US healthcare and the Harkness fellowship
Having decided to write a blog during this academic year living in the US, I hadn’t anticipated my tardiness would be because moving the family overseas was vastly more effort […]
Sophie Reshamwalla: Lifebox—is that the pulse oximeter charity?
Whenever I tell people I work for Lifebox, they often say, “Oh, is that the pulse oximeter charity?” I’ve heard this so many times now that it is easy to […]
Anna Allan: Making an impact
It is a sign of the times that one of the best ways for information from outside of hospital to come to my attention is via my Facebook newsfeed. This […]
Julian Sheather: Taxing the fat
To the evident frustration of the Danish Medical Association, Denmark has repealed the world’s first tax on saturated fats. The climb-down came after just over a year, the government citing […]
George Alleyne: Global health challenges and opportunities
The standard approach to defining the global health challenges is to use some formulation of Abdel Omran’s epidemiological transition or what is known also as the health transition and show […]
Kieran Walsh: Revalidation starts today
A running joke about revalidation is that its roll out is and always will be 12 to 18 months away. What will mandarins in Whitehall and the colleges chuckle about […]
Richard Smith: Why not auction your paper?
The idea has long been around that instead of submitting your paper to one journal you should auction it to the highest bidder. Today I did it. As we all […]