Category: Opinions, Thoughts & Interviews
Pardon My Medical Language
Rachel Hooke examines recent stories and reports concerning medical jargon versus plain English ...
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Latest Editorial Requirements
FANCY BEING A WRITER FOR CLINICAL CAREER? Our external contributors have always been central to...
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Should the Healthcare System Deliver Longer Patient Consultations?
Research conducted by the Health Foundation suggests that the amount of time that GPs in Britain...
Read MoreAn NHS-Wide Cloud for Diagnostics – Jane Rendall and Fredrik Gustavsson
An NHS-wide cloud for sharing diagnostic images and intelligence across the health service could mean huge economies of scale, stronger collaboration, and rapid digitisation, Sectra’s UK managing director Jane Rendall and chief...
Read MoreGreying Population is Demographic Timebomb
A new report has predicted that life expectancy will soon exceed 90 years for the first time in history, completely contradicting many assumptions about human longevity made previously. It is already forecast that women born in...
Read MorePFI and the Healthcare Finance Catastrophe: Part II
In this second part of our investigation into PFI contracts, we examine the impact on the healthcare system and clinical careers. It is already well-documented that the costs of building hospitals under Private Finance...
Read MoreLatest Deficit Data Exemplifies Collapsing NHS
With NHS trusts in England having posted a deficit in the region of £900 million following the third quarter of the financial year, the future of the healthcare service has once more been called into question. NHS Improvement...
Read MorePFI and the Healthcare Finance Catastrophe: Part I
In an economic climate defined by debt and deficit, one particular acronym has always proved contentious. PFI, or Private Finance Initiatives, have contributed a huge amount to the construction of the infrastructure of the NHS,...
Read MoreThe Rota Gap Lock-In – Dr. Rebecca H. Smith
Dr. Rebecca H. Smith is an SHO working at Portsmouth Queen Alexander Hospital. She recently recounted her experiences of working conditions and rota problems to Clinical Career. “Well we’re not leaving this room until someone...
Read MoreThe Known Unknowns of Brexit: Part I
The dust is beginning to settle on the Brexit referendum, which took place on 23rd June last year. With seven months’ water having gone under the bridge, we’re now better placed to begin to understand the impact of...
Read MoreThe Referendum on the Future of the NHS
The winter crisis in the NHS has underlined once again the problems that the publicly-funded healthcare service faces. Reports have been rife in the media of fatal blockages within NHS services, and there has even been a...
Read MoreTen Ways that Big Data will Impact on the Clinical Environment
Big data may seem like meaningless buzzwords, but the reality is that the technology concept is becoming central to numerous industrial niches. And healthcare is said to be massively impacted by this new phenomenon in the coming...
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