The NHS in the age of anxiety: rhetoric and reality—an essay by Rudolf Klein
A dangerous gap is opening up between rhetoric and reality as the NHS faces a grim fiscal future, Rudolf Klein argues. High flying ambitions for transforming the NHS are not matched by achievement, and...
View ArticleShould the FDA regulate mobile medical apps?
Bradley Merrill Thompson says regulation of certain medical apps is essential for patient safety, but Ira Brodsky believes unfettered development could see the reinvention of healthcare.
View ArticleHealing with an eye on the clock
Suzy Frisch looks at new studies questioning whether restricting residents’ hours hinders or helps their training.
View ArticleDevices and desires: industry fights toughening of medical device regulation...
Proposals for regulating medical devices, which the European parliament will vote on next month, are proving controversial. Deborah Cohen investigates the arguments.
View ArticleNominations open for The BMJ Awards 2014
The BMJ Awards 2014 will honour doctors making a difference in the UK. Rebecca Coombes invites you to enter and explains what’s new this year.
View ArticleTied up in science: unknotting an old anaesthetic problem
Like death and taxes, Clemens Barends and Anthony Absalom show that knots are an immutable fact of life. Acceptance rather than anger is therefore the mature response.
View Article2013 was a horrible year for nursing—nurses are “burnt out,” says chief
Nurses have been scapegoats in scandals over poor quality care when the main problem is understaffing, Peter Carter, head of the Royal College of Nursing, tells Chris Mahony.
View ArticleHarry Burns: the man who shifted Scotland’s thinking on health
Harry Burns, Scotland’s outgoing chief medical officer, tells Bryan Christie that social disintegration is at the root of ill health.
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