Back in January when I first had the idea of a march to protest against the targeting of healthcare workers in warzones, I couldn’t have imagined how bad things would be by the time we gathered in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 7 May. We marched – doctors, families, medical students, activists, experts and supporters – […]
Dementia is an issue society can’t escape. According to the Alzheimer’s Society by 2050, the 30pc of people over 65 predicted to develop dementia, will have grown from 800,000 today to 1.7million sufferers. If you then count family members caring for elderly relatives, the illness will directly and indirectly affect more than half of us. […]
The first doctors’ strikes for 42 years have resulted from the intransigence of the Department of Health (DH) led by Jeremy Hunt in insisting that Saturday is treated as a normal working day thus reducing overtime payments and doctors’ pay. Opposite my new flat they are constructing a new building and work from 8am-6pm Monday […]
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Doctors spend a lot of time on their smartphones and tablets, not just to talk to colleagues, but to look up drug reference data bases, and check e-mails. But should these essential communication tools carry a health warning? It is a question that has remained unanswered for over a decade as scientists dispute findings and argue about […]
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