Under the banner of “Fairer Funding,” the Tory manifesto outlines plans to change the current universal free school lunch system for infant pupils to a means tested programme plus universal free breakfasts. This policy demonstrates a party comfortable with stigmatising deprived families and will single out individual children in receipt of free lunches amongst their […]
This is a debate about the merits of regulation versus a system without any control, says Nick Clegg […]
Work environments that support caring and compassionate communication with patients provide foundations on which high quality, patient centred care can flourish. Nothing tests communication skills so much as breaking bad news. Emotions are often running high for both patient and doctor. Compassionate behavioural skills—using the right words expressed in the right way—can help minimise patient […]
We are all asked for feedback. We all receive feedback and then feedback on the feedback. This almost obsessive behaviour with feedback, in many cases, means the emphasis on the actual content of the original feedback is somewhat lost. As a training doctor in the UK, I am often asked for various reports on my […]
Iain Overton discusses how health services responded to the London 7/7 bombings and the Boston Marathon attack. […]
“For people to change, they need to connect,” Professor Pavao said to me on the car journey into UNESP university, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. It was my second day of a one-month study visit to learn about medical education. Professor Pavao was telling me about the event that she had coordinated the previous week to […]
Today, 26th May 2017, is Face Equality Day—the first in the UK. People all over the country will be wearing the unique butterfly that is the Changing Faces logo on their faces. Over the past 25 years, Changing Faces has received far too many reports—borne out by research—that people with disfigurements to their face or body […]
“Savings” in specialist services are increasing pressure elsewhere in the NHS, says Colin Drummond. […]
Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar set out five tasks for the newly elected DG of the WHO […]
In March 2017 Health Canada released a discussion paper promising a new era in transparency. The agency committed itself to proactively releasing clinical trial data submitted by drug companies, similar to what the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is already doing and, again like the EMA, to processing applications for the same information for drugs already […]