NHS Mismanagement
NHS in England is facing unprecedented challenges: a prolonged funding squeeze alongside a changing burden in society’s healthcare needs has put intense pressure on...
Fixing the NHS
As anyone with any experience in repairing things will tell you “you can’t fix it until you know which bit is broken”.
But is the...
‘It’s not you…’ Have successive governments fallen out of love with the NHS
It all started so well. In 1946, the National Health Service Act was published, and on the 5th July 1948, the NHS created. Welcomed,...
National Tracheostomy Safety Project: Guidelines for time-critical, decisive airway management.
Tracheostomy and Laryngectomies are high-risk procedures in increasingly complex patients, meaning that it is not always clear how they should be managed in emergency...
MRSA Needs Tackling in Community Medicine
MRSA Action UK was founded 10 years ago by a group of people who had life changing experiences or lost a loved one through...
How to learn from the never event
“I’m in charge, don’t you trust me”! “Checklists? Bah, a waste of time”.
Attitudes like this can lead to ‘never events’ in the operating theatre,...
How will 3D printing change medicine?
The apparent simplicity of 3D printing, from art projects to DIY guns, belies its enormous promise in healthcare. 3D printing –also known as additive manufacturing– historically...
Music as medicine
Why does music have an effect on our perception of pain and help us to overcome the functional restrictions imposed by pain?
We recently described...
Spreading sunshine over Europe
Since 2010, drug manufacturers and medical device companies in the US have had to to track and report their relationships with physicians (including any...
Revenge of the deep-frozen viruses
It’s been the plot of many too many films and science fiction stories: the ‘thing’ from the frozen wastes returns to life! (See, for...
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Improving the eye care of prone patients with Covid-19
The emergence of Covid-19 has led to unprecedented levels of ICU occupancy and mechanical ventilator use in the UK and worldwide. With non-intensivists often...
