Many early-phase studies towards an HIV cure or controlled remission involve substantial risks for study participants, but a host of ethical solutions are conceivable. […]
This speech was delivered as a TED Talk for University of Liverpool. Finsbury Square, London. 29th March 2017. This has not been an easy time for me. My 13 year old has been making his GCSE subject choices at school and has chosen PE over history. It has brought back vivid memories of my choices at the […]
“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long-run it is almost everything.” So said Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning economist, and not many economists would disagree. Productivity powers economic growth and funds better public services. Over the last 40 years real income per head has more than doubled while average hours worked have fallen. Productivity […]
On 13 March 2017, the House of Commons voted by 172 to 142 in favour of a second reading for the Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Bill. The bill, introduced by Diana Johnson MP, would decriminalise abortion until the end of the 24th week of pregnancy, meaning that abortion could be performed until the end of the […]
Ingeborg Welters discusses why many EU doctors are considering leaving the NHS as a result of Brexit […]
On 4 October 2016, England’s health secretary, Jeremy Hunt announced government funding for 1500 additional undergraduate medical school places starting in September 2018. Although medical schools were anticipating the need to expand numbers, the timing of the announcement took us by surprise and perhaps Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and Health Education England (HEE) […]
John Appleby unpicks the good news and the bad news for the NHS and social care from the 2017 spring budget […]
In January 2017, Keith Pearson, chair of the GMC’s own Revalidation Advisory Board, delivered a review into the future of revalidation. For many of us, anxious for some crumbs of reassurance that this burdensome ritual would be reformed, this was a deeply depressing document. There are over 50 responses on the GMC website, almost unanimous […]
Pandora Pound discusses how mandatory sex education should be delivered so that it is effective. […]
Seven years ago, my apparently well 26 year old son, Toby, died in his sleep of SUDEP—sudden unexplained death in epilepsy. Undiagnosed, he had bitten his tongue, quite severely, in his sleep one year previously. It was devastating to us as a family and to his friends. I had never heard of SUDEP. I was not […]