Scientists comment on The Sudlow Review, commissioned by the Chief Medical Officer for England, the UK National Statistician and NHS … read more
Commissioned by the Chief Medical Officer for England, the UK National Statistician and NHS England’s National Director for Transformation, the … read more
Our Future Health has now reached a critical milestone with over a million people from across the UK having completed all steps of … read more
Scientists comment on Wes Streeting announcing that NHS England will be able to share GP data for scientific research. … read more
Scientists react to the Tony Blair Institute National Data Trust Report. Dr Julia Wilson, Director of Strategy at the … read more
Experts react to news of Palantir operating the NHS’s new federated data platform. James Davenport, Hebron & Medlock Professor … read more
A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine compares physician and artificial intelligence chatbot responses to patient questions. Prof Martyn … read more
The new draft strategy, published yesterday by NHSX, claims to set out ambitious plans to harness the potential of data … read more
Speaking to the House of Commons, the Health Minister Jo Churchill announced that the creation of a central NHS digital … read more
Jacob Rees-Mogg recently apologised to Dr David Nicholl after comparing him to Andrew Wakefield for suggesting that a No Deal … read more
Leading medical research charities launched the ‘Sharing data save lives’ campaign to raise awareness of the importance of sharing data from patient records and came to the SMC to argue that the benefits far outweigh inflated privacy concerns. read more
This summer the surgical profession will for the first time begin publishing data around the individual performance of surgeons across a wide range of operations. Data on such a large scale present huge challenges along with the obvious benefits, so this briefing allowed science and health journalists to get to grips with some of the complexities of this new system before its introduction. read more
The best method for introducing psychiatric patients into the community has always been controversial. For many years experts called for compulsory supervision outside hospitals (Community Treatment Orders) and they have proved popular in many countries. They were introduced in the UK in 2008 but, until now, there has been little robust data to show whether they work or not. read more
Death is one of the very few things that happens to us all, yet as a society we are surprisingly bad at talking about it. Recent debate about the Liverpool Care Pathway has brought some of the issues to the fore, but how much do we really know about palliative and end of life care? How should we treat those in their final days, and is there ever such a thing as a ‘good death’? read more
The General Medical Council came to the SMC to announce the results of the PRACTICE study, which investigated the rate of GP prescribing errors, the nature of the errors detected and the implications, and the recommendations they are making as a result. read more
The NHS Future Forum, the body tasked with providing feedback and advice to the government on reforms to the NHS, published its second report on the proposed reforms and highlighting areas where they could be clarified or improved. read more
Researchers in Canada published a paper in The Lancet demonstrating a method of detecting awareness in vegetative state patients at the bedside. read more
The government has published the results of its ‘listening exercise’ to review its NHS reform legislation. read more
The SMC hosted the Nuffield Council on Bioethics for this briefing to launch their report Medical profiling and online medicine: the ethics of ‘personalised healthcare’ in a consumer age. read more
Although stem cells are widely believed to offer tremendous hope for treatments in the future, so far no stem cell medical treatments have received market authorisation. Leading scientists are alarmed that a growing number of patients are spending large sums of money going abroad to access unregulated and unproven stem cell treatments which offer little or no benefit and at worst can be detrimental to health. read more
