Challenges faced by the testing system in the UK show that a new way of thinking is required, argue Alan McNally and Jonathan Ball […]
Year: 2020
Vaccines for covid-19: reasons for hope, but first for concern
Covid-19 has spread around the world causing fear and global economic disruption. The rate of transmission has not been reduced effectively and natural herd immunity is currently far from a […]
Peter Brindley: Medical administration during covid-19—not all fun and games
When my children were younger—and believed they had “rocked my world”—they offered two showstoppers. The first was an imaginary microphone drop. This communicated that the issue was dealt with; nothing […]
“Out of sight but not out of mind”: perspectives from non-patient facing doctors during the covid-19 pandemic
The covid-19 pandemic has presented immense challenges to the National Health Service, but also to the NHS workforce. With up to one third of staff off with covid-19 or self-isolating […]
Expanding the NHS community workforce: what will this mean for the future of district nursing?
During the covid-19 pandemic, coverage has been largely silent on the issue of those working behind the closed doors of a patient’s home. For example, district nurses operating in a […]
Raj Bhopal: Blaming, petrifying, and punishing the population are not viable, long term public health strategies
We must cultivate trust, argues Raj Bhopal […]
Joanna Verran: The Bad Bugs Book Club—a study in infectious disease . . . and humanity
Microbiologist Joanna Verran set up a book club to encourage discussion about infectious disease using fiction, never anticipating the impact that it would have on her own learning […]
Raina MacIntyre: Cloth masks should be washed appropriately everyday
In 2011, we carried out a randomised controlled clinical trial of cloth masks in Vietnam, because in the course of doing face mask research, we had noticed that cloth masks […]
Long covid and self-help pacing groups—getting by with a little help from our friends
Paul Garner and colleagues describe how a self-help pacing group has helped them manage their long covid […]
Nahid Bhadelia: The US’s political divides makes a unified vision for surviving the next year impossible
Our way forward needs to be a carefully calibrated level of “normalcy,” but the nuance of this strategy is lost in the US’s hyperpolarized political environment, says Nahid Bhadelia […]