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Response to the Keogh Review

1 April 2014 | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery

On 13 February 2014 the UK Government published its response to the Keogh Review of the regulation of cosmetic interventions (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulation-of-cosmetic-interventions-government-response). This response has been much anticipated by the fields of plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine and inevitably has provoked...

The First World War and the Development of Facial Surgery

1 October 2013 | Andrew Bamji | PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery

Facial surgery has a history stretching to antiquity, but its success depended on luck until medical science had advanced enough to deal with three major issues – infection, surgical shock from blood loss and good anaesthesia. It was not until...

The importance of teamwork and leadership in the management of patients in burns centres

1 June 2019 | Emily Claire Taylor, Steven LA Jeffery (Prof) | PMFA - General Plastic Surgery

The authors discuss the vital part teamwork, leadership and communication play in the complex management of burns patients. Teamwork is a group of individuals collaboratively working together in the most efficient and effective manner to achieve a common goal [1,2]....

Perceptions and Deceptions: a personal blog by the editor 3 August 2016

3 August 2016 | Andrew Burd (Prof Rtd)

Whistle blowing. What is it? Fascinating discussion with Chris Day, the Junior Doctor in the UK who is challenging the execution of the law in this sensitive area of employment contracts (http://54000doctors.org). More of that later, but just to note,...

Perceptions and deceptions: a personal blog by the editor 18 August 2016

18 August 2016 | Andrew Burd (Prof Rtd)

I am back in the UK for a sabbatical and taking stock of all the changes since I left in 1999. An HK versus UK comparison becomes even more fascinating when looking at information sources ‘on the ground’. Social networking...

The New Doctors Contract NHS England – a brief summary

22 November 2016

This is intended to provide a quick summary of recent events, an outline of the current problems, including the contract, and whistle-blowing, and what we can do to address them. BackgroundIn November 2015, after a new contract was proposed, 98%...

First there was Sophia

4 January 2019 | Written by Andrew Burd (Prof Rtd) | Facial Plastic Surgery, General Plastic Surgery, Hand and Wrist Surgery

A robot is a man-made machine which can do some things by itself. It is not alive. It has no physiology. But it does have a source of energy, sensors to interact with the external world, a rudimentary nervous system...

Letter from Hong Kong (3 November 2020)

3 November 2020 | Andrew Burd (Prof Rtd)

It is seven months since I wrote the first ‘Letter from Hong Kong’. The message then was simple: “Fear is okay, panic is not and wear masks”. It is one month since I wrote the last letter and that message? “Life goes on and will go on no matter what.”

Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare: The medico-legal dilemma (part 12) – Risk

26 January 2022 | Andrew Burd (Prof Rtd)

Risks are ubiquitous in medicine. It is very important to realise that a risk can be both a threat and a friend. Risks relate to probabilities. The probability or possibility that the outcome may not be as desired. The Law does have a perverse view on this. The Law likes, demands, seeks cause and consequence. An honest doctor can rarely satisfy the Law. And that is why it was such a bad thing to see this poor Judge being led by the nose by two unscrupulous Medical “Experts”!

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