Too distracted by the by-elections to look at Twitter? Here’s our round-up of the last week’s best...
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Chief Inspector of Hospital Mike Richards’s video interview for the HSJ. - Former DH finance head (and now King’s Fund policy chief) Richard Murray on financially failing hospitals.
- What is the medical centre at a Formula One race for?
- GP Jonathan Tomlinson on the importance of #hellomynameis.
- What is TTIP? Why is it of interest to the NHS (or not)? The Nuffield Trust’s Nigel Edwards explains.
- A heat map of nursing vacancies around the UK.
- International comparisons of the health of the world’s major city populations.
From America:
- The Obamacare experiment which saved US taxpayers $24 million (and saved lives).
And finally:
- Something to celebrate – 55% of people smoked in 1948 compared to under 20% now.
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