Human factors, the DH and me
After my first wife died during a routine operation in 2005 I had many things to contend with. But in common with most people who’ve lost someone at a young age, I wanted to try and understand what ha...
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We’re all whistleblowers now
Last year, I wrote a special report for Private Eye with the journalist Andrew Bousfield. It was called ‘Shoot the Messenger – How NHS Whistleblowers are Silenced and Sacked’ and had some extraordinar...
Self management: it’s easy, isn’t it?
My colleagues often laugh at my mantra for integrating self management skills into mainstream health: ‘it’s like pushing water uphill’. But for those of you who have worked in this area it must feel t...
The Liverpool Care Pathway debate
The controversy over the Liverpool Care Pathway that has raged for the past 10 days or so, following horrid and misleading headlines from some newspapers, has this week collided with the Government’s ...
No more groundhog days
Shared decision making and self-management support can sound a bit woolly – nice, but not really medicine. Haemodialysis is hardcore medicine – instantly life-saving, it takes place in hospital with s...
The Liverpool Care Pathway - a family member's viewpoint
It is summer 2012. Sitting at the hospital bedside of a family member. The staff had just reviewed the continued appropriateness of the LCP – 'The Liverpool Care Pathway', a term we all came to know v...
AI in health care: hope or hype? With Professor Sir John Bell and Dr Axel Heitmueller
Episode 30. News of artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. We seem to be on the cusp of a revolution in how the latest AI models will change our lives – and health and care could be at the centre...
Costs and benefits of health technology information
This report summarises the available international evidence on the costs and benefits of clinical health information technology systems
UK GPs suffering unsustainable workplace pressures
Our report, an analysis of an international survey of GPs from 10 high income countries, paints a picture of high stress and low job satisfaction among UK GPs.
Molecular mediators of the association between child obesity and mental health
Investigating the role of obesity-related metabolic and epigenetic signatures in the onset of poor mental health in childhood.
