Watching the grand prix not Twitter? Here’s our summary of what you might have missed on health.
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Based on all the political parties’ pledges to date, NHS spending per patient will fall in the next parliament. - The context for the NHS in the next parliament. A good infographic by the Foundation Trust Network.
- What helps patient leaders improve experience?
- Voters allegiances are increasingly volatile.
- One for those with young children. What sleep deprivation does to your brain.
- Healthcare as a human right and what this means in practice.
- ‘Intelligent monitoring’ of GP practices.
- Prevention as long term cost control. Interesting in context of recent Richmond Group report.
- “Where there's a trust in the dung, there's a bung…” Andy Cowper on top form.
- What kills us in one picture.
- If physical illness had the same stigma as mental illness…
- The art of medical science (500 years ago).
- Obesity has nearly the same global economic impact as war or smoking.
- Why people make health systems work. From the person in charge of Parkland Hospitalwrote to his staff in 1963.
And finally…
- The reporting of statistics at its best.
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