“Weekend effects” in intensive care units
On Medicine,
While regions and countries, health care systems and providers, patients and societies may vary, some things are almost the…
While regions and countries, health care systems and providers, patients and societies may vary, some things are almost the…
Should we lay to rest the day of rest? Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Health, wishes to introduce a 7 day NHS, such…
Two articles published in The BMJ in 2015 on the “weekend effect” have sparked considerable debate in The BMJ and on social…
For several months now we have been hearing the government argue that the NHS should provide a “seven day service.” Initially…
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By Dominic Wilkinson @Neonatalethics At the bedside of a critically ill infant at 5am this morning I was tempted to tweet the…
Writing in the well-known Blue Top, the BMJ, Margaret McCartney, a fellow scourge of Bad Medicine, recently described the 16…