Jessamy Bagenal

1 month ago | thelancet.com | Jessamy Bagenal

Productivity in the UK's National Health Service (NHS) is declining, and many people are worried about this. It is the focus of meetings, white papers, articles, and webinars, and the topic arises in almost every NHS-related conversation. 1–6 This worry prompts concern among policy makers, excitement among those in the health technology industry who see opportunity, and weariness among health-care workers.

1 month ago | thelancet.com | Jessamy Bagenal

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Jul 3, 2024 | thelancet.com | Jessamy Bagenal

Too many patients in the UK have to wait more than 4 weeks for an appointment to see their general practitioner.People who have a stroke or a heart attack in the UK currently have an average wait of 46 min for an ambulance, and with every extra minute they wait the risk of permanent brain and heart damage and death increases.Underfunding, understaffing, and under-resourcing of health and social care compounded by a poorly managed COVID-19 pandemic have all contributed to the current...

Mar 5, 2024 | thelancet.com | Jessamy Bagenal

Azeem Azhar describes, in Exponential: Order and Chaos in an Age of Accelerating Technology, how human society finds it hard to imagine or process exponential growth and change and is repeatedly caught out by this phenomenon. Whether it is the exponential spread of a virus or the exponential spread of a new technology, such as the smartphone, people consistently underestimate its impact.

Jan 29, 2024 | thelancet.com | Jessamy Bagenal |Martin McKee

Jan 31, 2024, the anniversary of the UK formally exiting the EU, is an opportunity to take stock and reflect. In 2016 the Vote Leave campaign placed the UK National Health Service (NHS) at the heart of its campaign to exit the EU, with its slogan “We send the EU £350 million a week. Let's fund our NHS instead”, 1 Why Vote Leave's £350m weekly EU cost claim is wrong. defying the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority who pointed out that this amount for the UK contribution to the EU was wrong.