April 5, 2018
The United Kingdom’s four nations have the highest river nitrate concentrations in Europe. The European Environment Agency is demanding change, writes James Fitzgerald. The UK’s chemical-intensive farming methods have caught us between…
January 10, 2018
Taking on a biotech giant is tough. James Fitzgerald talks to one researcher who came out fighting. The release of the “Monsanto Papers” late last year made headlines around the world and…
January 9, 2018
Scientific evidence is mounting against the world’s most common herbicide, writes James Fitzgerald. This may be the knock-out round for Roundup, Monsanto’s top selling weed killer, after the European Parliament late last…
December 8, 2017
In a week of political brinkmanship regulations have become a thorny subject, but aligning regulations is a practical way to make relationships work, as is eminently demonstrated in healthcare, John Egan writes….
November 23, 2017
Combine two immiscible and complex topics and the outcome is a devil’s amalgam of issues to resolve, as a House of Lords select committee exploring uses of artificial intelligence in healthcare discovered…
October 20, 2017
Times are a changing for education, health, employment and income. John Egan reports on the findings of the OECD on emerging inequalities. For a young man born at the turn of the…
April 21, 2017
Are your aching knees becoming rather more painful? If the answer is yes, the United Kingdom industrial strategy could have particular pertinence. John Egan traces the path medical technologies might take as…
December 7, 2016
Government plans to provide up to 1,000 nursing degree apprenticeships a year will cost NHS trusts in England about £200 million annually, Chief-exec.com has been told. A Department of Health spokesman said…
December 7, 2016
A nationally agreed pay structure must be put in place for apprentice nurses while they train to ensure they are paid fairly for the work they do, UNISON, the public service union,…
December 7, 2016
It is mostly invisible but its effects on human health are pervasive. Air pollution kills 400,000 people prematurely across Europe each year, and is considered to be the primary environmental threat to…