It was excellent to see this piece in the Guardian last week - congratulations to the Bromley by Bow team.

Last month, Lord Mawhinney described it as "one of the most impressive displays of social entrepreneurship anywhere". Bringing together a GP surgery, employment and housing advice, language learning, a church, arts…

http://commonsrising.ning.com/profiles/blogs/changing-the-whole-system-of-healthcare-starts-with-practising-co

http://youtu.be/PQjb-wXnw

When Dr.Robin Youngson promised to 'mess' with our minds at the introduction to …

Dear IN members

Did you see the Guardian piece targeting the Innovations Network? Perhaps you are as bored and irritated as I am by certain armchair doctors' petty potshots, but our silence is becoming an embarrassment. Its time to speak out about those who want a reductionistic version of science choke the life and love out of medicine. It's time we challenged these oppressive views.

It's true, the College of Medicine's Innovations Network does include quite a few…

simon mills and i have been working with karen pilkington and others for the last two years to create a whizzy website called the selfcare library.  we are gathering the evidence about what people can do for themselves if they have

1. Back pain
2. Sore muscles (fibromyalgia)
3. Tiredness and fatigue
4. Sleep problems
5. Feeling low and depression
6. Stress and anxiety
7. Headaches
8. Migraine
9. Irritable bowel…