Campaigners have launched judicial reviews of a proposed contract designed to enable NHS commissioners to procure care from accountable care organisations. The contract would allow these organisations to take responsibility for budgets and services in their areas and there are worries that this will open the door to private companies to compete to deliver care […]
The Bawa-Garba case has been tragic: a family lost their son in terrible circumstances and a doctor lost her career. I know there is concern and anger about this issue, and that it has affected the gains that the GMC has made in recent years to develop a better relationship with the profession, and I […]
It’s time for us to seriously consider which patient care and monitoring devices should be connected to the internet […]
We need the GMC to set a powerful precedent by speaking up about the dangers of rota gaps, says Rachel Clarke […]
The completion of a cremation form is a service that takes time and knowledge, and in any other walk of life a service demands payment. But I am not in another walk of life, I am a NHS doctor in England. And because our healthcare system is free for all, and reliant on goodwill and […]
Helgi Johannsson and William Rook Hadiza Bawa-Garba, a trainee paediatrician who was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter over the death of Jack Adcock, a 6 year old boy, was struck off the UK medical register last week after a High Court ruling, in order to maintain public confidence in the profession. In the past ten […]
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Most therapeutic medicines have at least three different names. The chemical name, whose form generally follows the rules issued by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). For example, (R)1(3,4dihydroxyphenyl)2methylaminoethanol; the chemical name is an unambiguous description of a drug’s structure, but it is usually cumbersome and irrelevant to practical prescribing, although there […]
After decades of neglect by the drugs industry, the fight against tuberculosis will be even harder now that delamanid’s role seems to be rather limited […]
The Horn of Africa, a region often synonymous with conflict and political uncertainty hosts Somaliland, a relatively peaceful breakaway costal region that declared its secession from Somalia in May 1991. [1,2] The collapse of the central government destroyed infrastructure and displaced thousands of civilians forcing a complete breakdown of the national economy. [3] Under subsequent […]