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Junior doctors may strike in the UK.

Smartphone and medical related App use among medical students and junior doctors in the United Kingdom (UK): a regional survey

BACKGROUND Smartphone usage has spread to many settings including that of healthcare with numerous potential and realised benefits. The ability to download custom-built software applications (apps) has created a new wealth of clinical resources available to healthcare staff, providing evidence-based decisional tools to reduce medical errors.Previous literature has examined how smartphones can b...

Do doctors respond to financial incentives? UK family doctors and the GP fundholder scheme

The 1991 reforms to the UK NHS created a group of buyers of hospital care from amongst primary care physicians. The implementation of the reforms was such that these buyers had incentives to increase their use of hospital services prior to entering the scheme in order to inflate their budgets. It has been argued that non-financial motives would limit such behaviour. The paper shows that these h...

Media criticism of doctors: review of UK junior doctors' concerns raised in surveys.

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Helping doctors become better doctors: Mary Lobjoit—an unsung heroine of medical ethics in the UK

Medical Ethics has many unsung heros and heroines. Here we celebrate one of these and on telling part of her story hope to place modern medical ethics and bioethics in the UK more centrally within its historical and human contex.