Yesterday I took part in a joint BMJ/COPE meeting on research misconduct. The discussion set me thinking about factors that create and sustain healthy research environments. When we talk about […]
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Martin McShane: Incentives to transform primary care
I was fortunate to be able to listen to Danna Safran from Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Massachusetts at a recent King’s Fund conference. She was talking about the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 16 January 2012
JAMA 11 Jan 2012 Vol 307 157 There’s a general feeling among cardiologists that low potasssium is a bad thing, but this interesting observational study of 38 689 patients with […]
Evi Kalodiki on the fellowship of women: two hundred surgical lives
The fellowship of women: two hundred surgical lives, is a fascinating book. It was launched at the Women in Surgery (WinS) meeting of the Royal College of Surgeons on the 4 […]
Hannah Bass on Frontline: a year of journalism and conflict
2011 was an incredible year for news. Unrest across the world was organised via social media and often documented by citizens using little more than mobile phones. Rolling news bombarded […]
BMJ survey on research misconduct
We conducted an electronic survey of our UK-based submitting authors and reviewers about research misconduct in the UK. We invited 9,036 to take part and 2,782 responded (31%) within a […]
Research highlights – 13 January 2012
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research […]
Sameer Sarkar: Should a doctor have to countersign gun licence applications?
There are two sides to every story. However in the case of the tragic shooting incident on New Year’s Day in County Durham, we are only hearing part of the […]
Richard Vize: How to spend a £300 million capital fund
The Department of Health is sitting on hundreds of millions of pounds it doesn’t know how to spend. As the Health Service Journal revealed last week, the DH has suddenly […]
Muir Gray: The need for systems
“All of a sudden a big mealie pudden came flying through the air.” This is the opening line of a Glaswegian song, which only gets worse, about an assault by […]