Resolving ethical dilemmas in the NHS
Last week, a healthy baby was born from a woman who had been brain dead for nearly five months. The decision to keep the mother alive...
Tag: NHS
A national health concierge service
As a busy GP, I am fully aware and exposed to the everyday pressures faced by our National Health Service, sadly witnessing the NHS stretching...
Dear Doctor’s Diary: Work Made Me Cry
SHO medic Omar Hafeez-Bore is director/producer and founder of Short Sharp Productions. His honest, chatty one-minute films capture the thoughts and opinions of young UK...
Doctors at greater risk of depression
Sometimes very distressed doctors in the NHS do make the news – as with Daksha Emerson, a young psychiatrist who killed herself and her baby...
Legal headache for medics
I am a hospital doctor who is thinking about leaving the profession I love. It is not because I doubt my calling, or because I am...
Wearing face veils in the workplace
The NHS has a long tradition of balancing patient safety and religious views and practices. In 2008 there was some debate over new health guidelines...
More NHS homeopathy, not less
The debate about whether homeopathy should be available on the NHS invariably sees the opposing sides citing numerous research papers in support of their argument....
Theatre hijab has no place in NHS hospitals
Recently, I went to a large NHS teaching hospital in London for a blood test. A young couple was behind me in the queue. He was...
Accident and Emergency Diary: Saturday Night Shift
A&E wards can be frightening, stressful and downright unpleasant place to visit. They often seem close to bursting point with patients who range from car...
Lies, damned lies and surgical league tables
My heart sank when Health minister Jeremy Hunt announced that league tables for surgeons would be published back in 2014. As a consultant surgeon at...
