Today’s report from NHS Providers on NHS winter pressures bears out what the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has been saying for some time—urgent and emergency care is in the midst of a crisis and facing very serious challenges if patients are to be kept safe. Performance has continued to worsen to the poorest levels on […]
Clare Nicholson issues a call for clarity in defining severe intellectual disability […]
Could boredom in patients be a problem that impacts on health outcomes and performance of hospitals, asks Elizabeth Burns. […]
I’ve written before about the domino effect, which describes the multiple groups that are affected when an adverse outcome occurs. Traditionally, the first victims are the patient and their family and friends, the second victims are the staff members, and the third victim is the organisation. Recently I watched a fantastic talk on Learning from […]
By their own admission, medical students tend to forget their anatomical knowledge when entering into clinical practice. It is common for surgical supervisors to question whether anatomy had ever been taught in an adequate and relevant manner, and they often find themselves having to revise the relevant topics with the students again. Anatomy professors have […]
David McCoy explains why we should tax diesel vehicles more. […]
How many tabs have you got open on your web browser? I’ve got 27: six Airbnb properties in Cornwall, five Google maps with journey times to Cornish towns, six recipes for toad in the hole, three attempts to login to BMJ Learning, and the Guardian homepage at various points during the past three weeks. It’s […]
Medical students are constantly encouraged to publish academic work, but they are rarely instilled with the value of what the potential impact of that work could be, says Abraar Karan. […]
Safeguarding vulnerable children is a priority for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). I have therefore been closely following the passage of the Children and Social Work Bill through Parliament over the past few months. This bill updates and amends existing children’s social care legislation and aims to “make provision about looked […]
Hans Rosling died last Tuesday (7 February 2017) at the age of 68, as the Gapminder Foundation—which he co-founded—announced. My deepest condolences to his family, friends, and the many of us who will miss his contributions to the public discourse. A medical doctor and professor for international health at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute, Rosling became famous […]