Beccy Baird gives her thoughts on the recent GP contract update and what it means for general practice […]
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Miranda Davies: Why we should worry about prisoners missing hospital appointments
Prisoners in England miss 40% of their scheduled outpatient appointments—double the rate for the general population. This is one of the most striking findings of a new Nuffield Trust study […]
Pallavi Bradshaw: Tackling the cost of clinical negligence claims
Recently the eyewatering cost of clinical negligence claims to the NHS have dominated the headlines—£2.4bn was paid out during 2018/19 alone. To put this into context, £2.4bn equates to the […]
Awareness of human factors is a key part of healthcare regulation
Human factors are of pivotal importance to both patient safety and doctors’ wellbeing, say Peter Brennan and Tista Chakravarty-Gannon […]
David Rowland: The Paterson inquiry is a missed opportunity to tackle systemic patient safety risks in private healthcare
The report of the Independent Inquiry into the issues raised by Paterson is yet another missed opportunity to tackle the systemic patient safety risks which lie at the heart of […]
We need a “single repository” of data, bringing together information on surgeons’ work across all sectors
The recent Paterson Inquiry report was a milestone in a long fight by patients. The inquiry laid bare both the horrific extent of this rogue surgeon’s criminal behaviour, and the […]
Coronavirus: rolling out community testing for covid-19 in the NHS
Covid-19 is the novel coronavirus responsible for the ongoing global outbreak of acute respiratory disease and viral pneumonia. Covid-19 is classified in the UK as a high consequence infectious disease […]
Roger Kline: What if a patient wants to choose the ethnicity of their doctor?
Last autumn trauma and orthopaedic surgeon Radhakrishna Shanbhag shared his experience of being racially abused by patients during his 27 years working in the NHS. One particular incident, when a […]
Aneez Esmail and Sam Everington: The perils of researching racial discrimination
It’s more than 25 years since the publication of our paper on Racial Discrimination in Medicine in The BMJ which showed that British trained doctors with English sounding names were […]
Communities that prefer close blood marriages need more help to access genetic services
Fear, inadequate knowledge, and assumptions about cultural beliefs, result in missed opportunities to support access to genetic counselling, say Naz Khan and Sarah Salway […]