This week I am in rural Savar, Bangladesh, attending the Dhaka Colloquium on Systematic Reviews in International Development. It is always a pleasure to be in Bangladesh, but it is […]
Columnists
Julian Sheather: On doughnuts, moral desert, and paying for our health
I am writing this on an early train to Manchester. Not a bad time to see what people enjoy for breakfast. The woman opposite is eating one of those lovely […]
Richard Smith: Database of cases launched
Every 36 hours the NHS treats a million people. Across the world there are billions of interactions between patients and health systems every year. Each of those patients is a […]
Pritpal S Tamber: It’s time for a few good punch-ups in the NHS
The National Health Service in England needs a goal, and a plan on how to get there. Its local leaders should be appreciated more, not constantly pilloried. Primary care is […]
Tracey Koehlmoos: To screen or not to screen—mixed messages on mammography
You might not know this, but I am over 40 and I am a woman. In the US having breasts and being over 40 means something to doctors and patients. […]
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 […]
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To the evident frustration of the Danish Medical Association, Denmark has repealed the world’s first tax on saturated fats.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 […]
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 […]
Desmond O’Neill: Shaken and stirred
A key challenge of teaching gerontology in health sciences is to liberate ageing from the confines of later life and to view it as a continuous process across the life […]