We need the GMC to set a powerful precedent by speaking up about the dangers of rota gaps, says Rachel Clarke […]
Rachel Clarke: The Hadiza Bawa-Garba case is a watershed for patient safety
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Hadiza Bawa-Garba could have been any member of frontline staff working in today’s overstretched NHS
The only way to improve patient safety is to talk openly about everything that contributes to patient harm, says Rachel Clarke […]
Rachel Clarke: A blame culture has made the NHS less safe, not more
“The NHS is not fit for the 21st century,” was the headline in the Daily Telegraph this weekend, reporting on an interview with Professor Ted Baker, the new chief inspector of hospitals. It seems like only yesterday that another Professor—Stephen Hawking—felt compelled to raise concerns in the press about the current state of the NHS. […]
Rachel Clarke: The professor, the politician, and the advent of “Huntsplaining”
If this seems like a silly season Twitter spat, it isn’t. It’s deadly serious […]
Rachel Clarke: Cheap, undervalued, expendable—junior doctors in 2017?
NHS trusts are still treating junior doctors as if they are expendable at a time when low morale should be a priority […]
Rachel Clarke: Junior doctors’ dispute—Jeremy Hunt musn’t ignore doctors’ genuine concerns
It’s ironic, isn’t it? Even as last ditch truce talks to settle the junior doctors’ dispute got underway this week, UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt has come under fire yet again for going to war with doctors on the flimsiest of pretexts. Yesterday, a stroke physician from Oxford University, Professor Peter Rothwell, talked about research that […]