Too busy building Lego ambulances to look at Twitter? Here’s our summary of what you might have missed.
- Want to win a Lego Incisive Health ambulance? Answer five (relatively) simple questions to earn your chance.
- Can you manage an A&E through a winter crisis? Take a hospital out of Special Measures in our game.
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A ghost from Christmas past. The King’s Fund has been having some fun with the Russian dolls. - There was plenty of festive spirit at #AdsParty.
- Fertility and mortality.
- Issues facing the Britain – the NHS has reached its highest level since 2008.
- What is found on hospital elevator buttons (or one more reason to take the stairs).
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Lots of great ambulance pictures on our timeline. This by Andy Cowper was one of our favourites. - A new Health Foundation report quotes our research on the Bournemouth and Poole merger.
- The dividing line in cancer care. There are lots of interesting essays in this compendium published by Macmillan Cancer Support.
- The Chinese Government is now the biggest tobacco manufacturer in the world.
- Don’t drink and drive advert, 1970s style.
- Prosthetic limbs in World War 1.
- A classic from Christmas BMJs past. Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials.
- Regional variations in tobacco spend.
From America:
- The new Surgeon General was born in Huddersfield.
- The USA redrawn as 50 states of equal population size.
- A 1960s prototype of Google Glass?
- Car accidents still kill more Americans than guns, but guns are catching up.
And finally…
- Merry Christmas in the official languages of European countries.