Honorary degree for Bradford Clinician
A clinician who set up one of the world's largest research studies has been awarded an honorary degree from the University of Bradford. Professor John...
Tag: healthcare
Doctor in the house? a free healthcare service
A new virtual consultation service – www.doctorinthehouse.net – launched today to provide a free, safe healthcare service that links worried patients to at-home healthcare professionals....
Hands as diagnostic tools
Human hands are vastly more sophisticated than is necessary for survival. Each has 27 bones and is controlled by 35 muscles; a quarter of the...
Healthcare for expats in the OECD and beyond
An overview of the healthcare systems in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries (OECD) and elsewhere. While money, career improvement and a change of...
UK low in G20 league table for healthcare
When it comes to the G20 league table for healthcare, the UK is bumping along somewhere near the bottom. Turkey and Mexico are the only...
Health of ageing populations
Populations around the world are ageing due to increased life expectancy and falling fertility. These shifts have been driven by improved healthcare, better infrastructure and medical innovations. But...
Global health challenges
I feel very strongly that everyone in healthcare should understand the global context in which we all work. The challenges that face us today are...
First Masters in patient safety
Patient safety is an essential component of healthcare quality and has become a topic of increasing focus at all levels of the health system, domestically...
Heals on wheels
Aaminah Verity is a volunteer doctor who works with the international healthcare charity, Doctors of the World (Médecins du Monde). She recently spent six weeks...
