David Jones (not his real name) is a medical student at a famous London teaching hospital. There are too many of us. There have been too many of us since a decade ago when the British government figured that the best way to pander to the people was to look like it was improving healthcare. The men in the Palace of Westminster went "Hey, lets make loads of people go to medical school" and the Briti...

National Defense Magazine publishes the next contribution to the medical diplomacy discussion, but this time it comes from a rather unique point of view. A pair of bloggers, Craig Hooper and Jim Dolbow (ok so maybe they both have real jobs) come together and look at medical diplomacy as a role for the Coast Guard. This is a very clever idea. A future hospital ship should be tied into some sort of ...

A Scottish hospital is facing questions after leaving crates of medical records apparently unattended in a public corridor.

The British Medical Association has attacked plans which could give researchers and private companies access to NHS medical records without patients' consent.

Kettering General Hospital is an established district general hospital which provides a wide range of medical services to about 300,000 people in North Northamptonshire.

Speaking of hospital ships and medical diplomacy, Admiral Jim Stavridis brings up the topic in his first post on the USSOUTHCOM Commander's Blog. Apparently Brazil has hospital ships too, but their ships operate on the Amazon. The Brazilian Navy boasts an innovative and well-developed program of small hospital ships, which ply the river. With shallow drafts, they can move up the hundreds of tribut...

David Cameron's wife leaves the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro after giving birth to Florence Rose Endellion on Tuesday.

By Labour Party leadership candidate, Diane Abbott MP from her blog Last weeks Prime Ministers Questions saw David Cameron produce a fancy new sound-bite to describe, in his opinion, the Labour Party’s attitude towards the current budget deficit. Cameron’s remark followed a trademark evasive answer to a question from Labour MP Russell Brown on whether funding for medical

King's College Medical School Just under a year ago, I wrote an article about King’s College Medical School dumbing down its entry requirement. This was the Extended Medical Degree Programme (EDMP) (EMDP) aimed to attract bright students from state schools in inner London who had A-level results that were far too poor to gain entry to medical school and show that, with the right help, they could...

Junior hospital doctor Those GPs who wake up in the morning listening to the Today programme on Radio 4 are used to the medical stories that always start, or contain, some criticism of GPs. We don’t know this, we don’t know that, we need more training, we are overpaid, we are lazy and so on. It is deeply depressing and saps morale. The medical story this morning was different. It was precise a...