Aim To evaluate the educational effectiveness of a clinically integrated e-learning course for
teaching basic evidence-based medicine (EBM) among postgraduate medical trainees …

Background The Anticoagulation Therapy in Selected Cancer Patients at Risk of Recurrence
of Venous Thromboembolism (SELECT‐D) trial demonstrated reduction in recurrent …

Leadership is much more than that, and needs to be able to empower all of us to inform and
deliver organisational change at any level in the NHS, keeping patients and their carers at …

Background Following evidence published in the Pharmacists in Emergency Departments (PIED
2016) study Health Education England funded novel advanced clinical practitioner …

Background It has been argued that UK general practice specialist training should be
extended to better prepare GPs for the challenges facing 21st-century health care. Evidence is …

Clinical leadership skills are now being taught to junior doctors. This study looks at the
baseline views of 196 recently qualified Foundation doctors (year 2). The most favoured Belbin …

⦁ More large-scale research is needed to ascertain differences between professional
disciplines in how doctors in training develop leadership competencies.⦁ It is important that …

Hot on the heels of NHS England’s General Practice Forward View 1 2 comes the King’s
Fund’s analysis of the pressures affecting British general practice. 3 It seeks to explain the …

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a major cause of morbidity and premature mortality in the Western
world. It is responsible for about 10% of the NHS spend (about£ 286/second in the UK). Of …

… Veronica Wilkie, professor of primary care, Institute of Health and Society, University of
Worcester, UK … It took an outsider’s report to publicise primary care’s failings in the 1950s; …