On Tuesday, Genetic Alliance UK sent out a letter to all its member charities. It is a real pleasure to start working with patient charities
Category: Society
Will the Big Society help with NHS efficiency savings?
Will the Big Society, GP commissioning, and a major reorganisation help or hinder the NHS in making 4% efficiency savings compound over four years? This
Creating a sustainable health system, learning from business
If we carry on as now we will need 2.3 planets to support the 9 billion people who will be alive in 2050, says the
Feeding back to individuals the findings of research on their genes
Around the world research groups are sequencing the genome of tens of thousands of people, and a crucial question is what to do about feeding
Intercepted correspondence from a PKB patient inviting a clinician
This blog post was originally published on the British Medical Journal’s web site. What follows is intercepted pseudonymous correspondence between a patient and a GP as
Shared decision-making: nothing about me without me
It was with great pleasure that I read the UK government’s “Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS” white paper. It enshrines the principle of patient-controlled