Cyril Chantler—paediatric nephrologist, medical school dean, NHS manager, former chair of Great Ormond Street, and much else—is quite possibly the wisest man in the NHS. So we should play close attention to his plan—set out in one and a half pages—for saving the NHS. (Chantler submitted a longer version to the House of Lords report […]
A new series looks at the World Bank’s expanding role in global health […]
We should be addressing how we think about drugs and drug laws […]
Recently we have seen a rallying of women in response to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and Women’s Equality Party call for a reduction in the price of emergency contraception (EC) in UK pharmacies. This was highlighted by the case of a journalist, Hannah Rose Ewens, who travelled to Paris to buy the emergency […]
The GMC is often the misguided target for the ire of those frustrated by the burden of regulation […]
It may be easier to topple monuments and memorials than erase the memories they evoke or the policies that sustain them. Canada’s experience is not the Confederates’ in Charlottesville, yet it’s also in the process of renaming buildings and removing monuments across the country that evoke its colonial past and the abrogation of Aboriginal people’s […]
The introduction of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) into the regular practice of cancer and other specialties within medicine must surely be one of the leading advancements in delivery of healthcare in the last decades. By setting clear guidelines and targets for management of cancer, for example, NCAT has overseen a widespread improvement in consistency of […]
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Ancient physicians considered medicine to be an art, typified by an aphorism of Hippocrates: Plato repeatedly referred to medicine as an art, for example in the Gorgias and the Symposium, as did Roman writers, such as Cicero, Ovid, and Celsus. However, the idea that medicine was also a science gradually emerged. Galen, for example, wrote […]
Stigma must not stop investment in mental health services, says the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists […]