The government has just announced a health and social care levy which is expected to raise £14bn a year. Of this, £1.8bn a year will go to social care. But will money alone fix the problems? Helen Burns reviews Saving Social Care by Neil Eastwood, and helps us to understand the issues involved.
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We all know that the world is going to hell in a handcart. But we all know wrong. David Misselbrook reviews Hans Rosling’s final book: Factfulness.
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Those who come from poorer backgrounds get unwell earlier and die almost a decade before those from richer backgrounds. Dipesh Gopal reviews “Inflamed: deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice” by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel.
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Charlotte Williamson has been chair of the patient liaison group for the Royal College of General Practitioners, and is an expert in giving friendly but challenging feedback to our profession, making sure the patient’s voice is heard. Roger Jones reviews her important new book.
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My Dark Vanessa is not an easy read, but any book that tackles the subject of abuse, sexual exploitation, victimhood, and coercive control is bound to be challenging …
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Alena Chong reviews John Launer’s latest book …. and is inspired to shower colleagues and patients with limitless compassion, calmness, loving-kindness and appreciative joy.
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John Gillies reviews a textbook on Compassionate Leadership, with the subtitle ‘sustaining wisdom, humanity and presence in health and social care.’ It might just be a book whose time has come.
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Nigel Masters reviews “Dr Samways writes to the Editor: The Life and Times of an Exceptional Physician” by Tom Treasure. Samways was a remarkable 19th century General Practitioner who still holds lessons for us today.
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Richard Baker reviews the first authoritative account of the UK government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Book review: “A young doctor’s notebook” by Mikhail Bulgakov brings us back to what it felt like to be a newly qualified doctor with scary responsibilities and inadequate support.
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Doctors face “triple jeopardy” – being pursued by the Civil Court for damages, the Criminal Court for negligence, and the GMC for fitness to practice. Alena Chong reviews a novel by Tim Howard, a fellow doctor, about what can happen when things go wrong.
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It’s not been an easy time to be a doctor! Jonathan Wells reviews “The Wellbeing Toolkit for Doctors”, a timely new book for GPs, medical students and doctors in training. Let’s look after ourselves and each other!
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