Head To Head

Do overly complex reporting guidelines remove the focus from good clinical trials?

Should covid vaccination be mandatory for health and care staff?

Patient commentary: Protect patients like me—make covid vaccines mandatory for all eligible staff in care settings

Commentary: Mandatory covid vaccination blames individual care home workers for government failures

Should we delay covid-19 vaccination in children?

Is PTSD overdiagnosed?

Should masks be worn outdoors?

Should NHS managers be regulated like doctors?

Should spreading anti-vaccine misinformation be criminalised?

Covid-19 vaccines: Should we allow human challenge studies to infect healthy volunteers with SARS-CoV-2?

Should countries aim for elimination in the covid-19 pandemic?

Covid-19: Should doctors recommend treatments and vaccines when full data are not publicly available?

Should doctors tackling covid-19 be immune from negligence liability claims?

Should governments continue lockdown to slow the spread of covid-19?

Is it wrong to prioritise younger patients with covid-19?

Is it time to nationalise the pharmaceutical industry?

Would decriminalising personal use of cannabis lead to higher rates of mental illness?

Should medical schools relax academic admission criteria?

Is Dengvaxia a useful vaccine for dengue endemic areas?

Are confidence intervals better termed “uncertainty intervals”?

Should point-of-care ultrasonography replace stethoscopes in acute respiratory failure?

Is WHO’s surgical safety checklist being hyped?

Should obesity be recognised as a disease?

Should the supply of cannabis be legalised now?

Should measles vaccination be compulsory?

Should I publish in an open access journal?

Is an opt-out system likely to increase organ donation?

Should we screen for atrial fibrillation?

Should we stop using electroconvulsive therapy?

Should we rename low risk cancers?

Patient commentary: Confusing terminology for cancers and precancerous lesions made me anxious

Could artificial intelligence make doctors obsolete?

Patient commentary: Stop hyping artificial intelligence—patients will always need human doctors

Could Brexit harm the NHS?

Commentary: Patients shouldn’t have to worry about an unhealthy Brexit

Will research preprints improve healthcare for patients?

Does evidence based medicine adversely affect clinical judgment?

Patient commentary: General practice needs radical reform, not tweaks like consultation caps

Should GPs’ daily number of consultations be capped?

Should we recommend e-cigarettes to help smokers quit?

Should we try to manage non-financial interests?

Patient Commentary: I was pregnant, in pain, and desperate when I chose acupuncture

Should doctors recommend acupuncture for pain?

Should universal distribution of high dose vitamin A to children cease?

Do the benefits of folic acid fortification outweigh the risk of masking vitamin B,12, deficiency?

Should doctor assisted dying be legal?

Should action take priority over further research on public health?

Should all patients be asked about their sexual orientation?

Is the concept of clinical equipoise still relevant to research?

Is continuous electronic fetal monitoring useful for all women in labour?

Has the Mental Health Act had its day?

Should cost effectiveness analyses for NICE always consider future unrelated medical costs?

Should we scrap the target of a maximum four hour wait in emergency departments?

Should we welcome plans to sell off NHS land?

Should Google offer an online screening test for depression?

Patient Commentary: Online screening for depression—old (paternalistic) wine in new (digital) bottles

Should doctors work 24 hour shifts?

Should we screen for cirrhosis?

Do doctors have a duty to take part in pragmatic randomised trials?

Should we have a royal commission on the NHS?

Should research ethics committees police reporting bias?

Should US doctors mourn for Obamacare?

Should we commit to eradicating malaria worldwide?

Is it time for a dedicated tax to fund the NHS?

Should US doctors embrace electronic health records?

Commentary: The real problem is that electronic health records focus too much on billing

Commentary: We’re under financial strain without prescriptions for gluten-free food

Should gluten-free foods be available on prescription?

Are nanny states healthier states?

Should healthy people take a vitamin D supplement in winter months?

Could private top-up insurance help fund the NHS?

Should all GPs become NHS employees?

Should the NHS abolish the purchaser-provider split?

Should we welcome food industry funding of public health research?

Should doctors boycott working in Australia’s immigration detention centres?

Is the timing of recommended childhood vaccines evidence based?

Should we ban boxing?

Could campaigns like Dry January do more harm than good?

Should patients pay to see the GP?

Should GPs be paid to reduce unnecessary referrals?

Should psychiatric hospitals completely ban smoking?

Should women abstain from alcohol throughout pregnancy?

Would judicial consent for assisted dying protect vulnerable people?

Should all NHS premises provide free access to wi-fi?

Could a sugar tax help combat obesity?

Should doctors recommend homeopathy?

Should we welcome multinational companies’ involvement in programmes to improve child health?

Are clinical trials units essential for a successful trial?

Does long term use of psychiatric drugs cause more harm than good?

Is “boarding” appropriate to help reduce crowding in emergency departments?

Should surgical training include involvement in a clinical trial?

How I use health apps

Can healthy people benefit from health apps?

Is a smoking ban in UK parks and outdoor spaces a good idea?

Patient commentary: Direct access would beat receiving test results with the receptionist’s interpretation

Can patients use test results effectively if they have direct access?

Can private providers be trusted to run NHS hospitals after Hinchingbrooke?

Should doctors encourage patients to record consultations?

Can doctors be trained in a 48 hour working week?

Is emotional restraint a healthy response to adversity?