Britain’s local healthcare system of small time gatekeepers should become stronger networks of powerful providers.
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When one in six hospitalisations of older patients are due to harm from their medicines, then something is going seriously wrong.
More than 700,000 people die each year from antibiotic-resistant infections. The World Health Organisation is trying to end the age of ignorance to protect this global common good.
Women in northern Nigeria are not going for cancer screenings early enough. There are myriad social, cultural and economic reasons for this. But early detection would save their lives.
Drones could provide an essential cargo-carrying service in rural areas where there are fewer clinics, less healthcare workers and limited transport services.
Having ‘approved’ poor quality, privacy-busting and clinically dubious apps, the NHS Health App Library closes - but it didn’t need to be this way.
The health system Muhammadu Buhari inherited in Nigeria is not performing at an optimal level. It has poor governance at the primary health care level and weak collaboration and co-ordination.
The NHS has always used incentives to shape doctors’ behaviour but the latest payments are a blunt instrument.
Australians are picking up some of the slack of government belt-tightening by paying more for health, with experts concerned this could reduce the equity in Australia’s health system.
Rudeness causes medical teams to perform worse, and ultimately this could have huge costs for patients.
Five new European studies say dementia occurrence is stable or falling. Our panic may have been unnecessary.
Repeated data panics have left the public in a state of anger and confusion. How does NHS England fix the problem?
Take one mental health issue, then add the label of a disorder, then see if therapists apply their own prejudices.
Robotic surgeon assistants are growing in popularity, but aren’t always team players.
If South Africa’s complete health workforce is tallied, there is not a critical shortage of human resources to provide health care services.
The Conservative Party’s plans for an extra £8 billion annual health spending aren’t enough to halt a decline in quality care – never mind transform the NHS.
The NHS might be an election battleground but the system is a world standard, and should not be meddled with for political or economic ends.
If ever we wanted a reminder of how global capitalism has got things wrong, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa serves the purpose well. Our assumption that economic growth is essential is not only a feature…
Healthcare group Circle has announced that it plans to withdraw from its contract to run Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire, three years into a deal that was supposed to last ten years. The company…
In Austerity Britain, few cutbacks capture the public ire like those directed towards the beloved NHS. In the public consciousness at least, it seems the NHS must remain outside the whims of party politics…
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Research Scientist of Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
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