As we reach the middle of the second and final week of this COP meeting, positions are beginning to harden, and may well persist into the post-Cancún landscape. Ministers started […]
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Richard Smith: The town that gave up medicine
How would you like to be part of a television programme provisionally entitled “The town that gave up medicine”? The programme will be made by a company called Films of […]
Anna Dixon: Should clinicians be responsible for the population as well as individuals?
Historically, clinicians have had a strong tradition of connecting the health of the individual in their surgery to the population’s health. Doctors were, for example, active in early campaigns for […]
Michael Wilks: Climate change and health – time for a new narrative
The last “COP” (conference of the parties) meeting, in Copenhagen a year ago ended in chaos, mutual distrust, and an agreement on very little. The fact that world leaders are staying […]
Richard Smith: Will the Big Society help with NHS efficiency savings?
Will the Big Society, GP commissioning, and a major reorganisation help or hinder the NHS in making 4% efficiency savings compound over four years? This was the question that kept […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Martin Roland in Belfast
Like it or loathe it, practice will never be the same. Constant data audit, screen reminders, and intrusive disease monitoring protocols have, undoubtedly, altered the consultation but, the Quality and […]
Des O’Neill: So, when do you become “old”?
An occupational hazard of being a geriatrician is that not infrequently I am asked at social occasions: “So, Des, when do you become ‘old’?” The questioner is usually a fit […]
Barbara Bale: reaching sick children in remote rural areas in China
We are here in a remote mountainous village in Yunnan to understand more about what happens when a baby or young child gets sick. We already know too many die […]
Martin McShane on tools and workshops
This is one of the busiest times of the year for the PCT. We have a tight timetable to assemble a plan and start contract negotiations. Soon we will be […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 6 December 2010
JAMA 1 Dec 2010 Vol 304 Eicosapentaenoic acid – which one is that? That’s right, the fishy one: all that spelling homework I made you do is paying off. More […]