“We Must Be Ready”

Margaret McCartney: We must be smarter about recruitment and retention.

A hundred million pounds is a lot of money. NHS England has pledged to spend as much as this on recruitment agency fees to bring in GPs from abroad. The aim is for 5000 extra GPs. Overseas recruitment will make up a large portion of this new wave of doctors. In the 1960s, general practice in the NHS was saved by Indian and Pakistani doctors, at a time when a third to a half of UK medical gradua...

Will We Be Ready for the Next War?

TO THE EDITOR—The title of Dr Schooley's editorial, " All's (Almost) Quiet on the Western Front: Will We Be Ready for the Next War? " [1] raises a key question: What is the role of the US Department of Defense (DoD) in the Ebola outbreak response? Because Ebola is a biological warfare threat, the DoD has been developing medical countermeasures through its biological defense program for more tha...

When will we be ready for academic integrity?

The academic dental community has been taken aback by recent events involving student cheating. Several of these events have served as the catalyst for a number of recent journal articles on the subject, providing an invaluable overview of the problems. There have also been several articles over the last few years that have considered student behavior and how institutions can address profession...

Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?

The year 2016 could turn out to be a turning point for global health, new political realities and global insecurities will test governance and financing mechanisms in relation to both people and planet. But most importantly political factors such as the global power shift and “the rise of the rest” will define the future of global health. A new mix of health inequity and security challenges has...

We must--and we can--do better.