If there is a positive message to be drawn from the misery of the covid-19 pandemic, it is that of community. Of people in their thousands volunteering to support the […]
Year: 2020
Withdrawing Priadel—very expensive for the NHS and extremely worrying for patients
I take Priadel, a form of lithium carbonate, to help me recover from decades of severe mental illness: psychosis, depression, suicidality, and self-harm. Priadel helps me find some sort of […]
Katherine Murdoch: Foundation interim doctors—a role beyond the pandemic?
The internet is loading, families are gathering around computer screens and the medical school dean is preparing his speech. It is the twenty seventh of March and instead of being […]
John Oldham: No turning back from service redesigns in light of covid-19
Last year over 70% of consultations in general practice were face to face, despite the technological availability of remote consultations. In April 2020, in light of the covid-19 pandemic and […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Planning
Self-assessment, which I covered last week, is generally an integral part of a personal development plan, now a de rigueur feature of life in universities and elsewhere. The word “plan” […]
Breaks at breaking point—doctors need to take time out in a pandemic
Work during the covid-19 pandemic—whether it is frontline care, administration, management or pastoral support—has two hallmarks which makes it problematic for fatigue and performance: it is relentless and it is […]
Navina Evans and Derek Feeley: Quality healthcare means equity
A focus on equity must become culturally embedded in the NHS as part of “the way we do things around here,” say Navina Evans and Derek Feeley […]
Martin J Vernon: Discharge “criteria to reside:” policy lever or blunt instrument?
As the pandemic approached England in early 2020, government policy decisions ensured most people stayed at home and NHS hospitals were largely protected. Yet some lives were not saved that […]
John P.A. Ioannidis: Scientific petitions and open letters in the covid-19 era
Scientific truth should not be decided by the bulk of signatories, argues John Ioannidis […]
Posterior tongue tie: the internet phenomenon driving a lucrative private industry
We are concerned by the emerging industry of private practitioners offering “posterior tongue tie” or “lip tie” division to newborns with feeding difficulties despite a paucity of evidence in this […]