Most of my work is concerned with non-communicable disease (NCD) in low and middle income countries, so I’ve got to know a fair bit about the subject. But yesterday I […]
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Pritpal S Tamber: Evidence and the real world
There is a lot of angst around why research evidence takes so long to penetrate routine clinical practice. My view is that it’s a miracle that any of it makes […]
Martin McShane: Walk the talk
Sometimes, it becomes apparent that what we have been talking about for so long is actually beginning to happen. Over the last few weeks we have been preparing for our […]
Tracey Koehlmoos: Implementation research evidence uptake and use for policy making
For the last two years I have worked on a project about implementation research with more than 120 colleagues from across the globe: India, Chile, Mexico, Switzerland, Brazil, Canada, Uganda […]
Richard Smith: A way to provide palliative care globally
Palliative care globally lacks funding, professionals, and medicines (particularly morphine) and suffers from policy neglect, said David Praill, chief executive of Help the Hospices, opening a meeting in London on […]
Tom Nolan: Industrial action – winners and losers
The dust has settled following last week’s industrial action on pensions. Online forums, Twitter, and blogs have been alight with doctors giving their views—who do they feel have been the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 25 June 2012
JAMA 20 June 2012 Vol 307 2491 Most clinicians assume that the agencies which license new drugs—the Food and Drug Administration in the USA, or the European Medicines Agency over […]
Seye Abimbola: How to improve the quality of primary health care in Nigeria
Health services in Nigeria mirror political organisation. The federal government is responsible for tertiary care, state governments are responsible for secondary care, and local government runs primary care. The financing […]
The unintended outcome of today’s industrial action
He said he was happy to pay extra for his pension. The country couldn’t afford the national projected pension costs and the economy was in crisis. But, as long as […]
Pritpal S Tamber: Soft-wiring knowledge
Knowing when and how to apply established knowledge into practice is difficult. A recent article in The Lancet shows why. The thickness of the inner walls of the carotid artery […]