Open access for asthmatics
Asthma patients from surgeries who have good access to primary care, such as in their GP surgery, are less likely to be admitted to hospital...
Save the NHS
A Father’s Day curry at home in muggy Derbyshire afforded me yet again the opportunity to attempt to field answers to a medic’s least favourite...
Flexible Careers Scheme for NHS Hospital Doctors
The Flexible Careers Scheme is a response to the Improving Working Lives Initiative, which aims to make the National Health Service a better place to...
Flex for GPs
'I retired from medicine at the age of 73. I would have liked to work for longer as a locum but it really became quite...
Histrionic personality disorder
This is a rare type of personality disorder, and diagnosis is controversial. However, symptoms include the fact that sufferers seek constant attention and exaggerated show...
Genetic engineering and MND
Over the last 20 years, there have been tremendous strides in our understanding of motor neuron disease and ways to treat it. MND, which is...
Making your time count
Time is precious, and once it is gone, we don’t get it back. It is the only thing that money cannot buy. The ability to...
Blue light for mental health
People who work in the emergency services, including ambulance drivers and paramedics, face unique pressures including regular exposure to traumatic incidents and life-threatening emergencies. What...
Cervical screening after 50
“During Cervical Screening Awareness Week (13-19 June) Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust, the UK’s only dedicated charity for women affected by cervical cancer and abnormalities, wants...
Plant-based vaccine for polio
"The fight against polio has been one of the great success stories of modern medicine with the disease already eliminated in much of the world....
