The National Health Service has been transformed in the past five months to respond to the covid-19 pandemic, and the social care system has been severely strained. More recently, the […]
Year: 2020
Birth partners are not a luxury
Denying pregnant women access to their support network during maternity care may have a lasting negative impact, warn Benjamin Black, Jane Laking, and Gillian McKay […]
Taking a wellbeing-years approach to policy choice
Every day, policy makers have to decide whether a policy is desirable. They do so by examining its impact on a whole range of outcomes. But the problem is how […]
Delivering for women, children, and adolescents during and after covid-19
A new report argues the decades long efforts to improve health should be shielded from the effects of the pandemic and the response to it […]
The impact of covid-19 on health delivery and research in South Asia
Covid-19 continues to cause huge disruption worldwide. As well as the ongoing immediate health impacts of the pandemic, and the delays and disruption to other healthcare services—the economic toll is […]
The health, wellbeing, and employment arrangements for people with Long Covid remain unaddressed
Layla Moran, MP and chair of the APPG on coronavirus, says that awareness of Long Covid, and its seriousness, is too low […]
Richard Smith: Could Sweden have got it right with covid-19?
Pandemics are unpredictable and it is too soon to say, argues Richard Smith […]
Mushtaq Bhat: Immigrant doctors are eager to serve, but US immigration policy won’t let us
America’s visa restrictions are frustrating for immigrant physicians, but downright dangerous for the US, writes Mushtaq Bhat […]
Charlotte Squires: Shielded doctors and wounded healers
Four weeks ago, a group of people across the country began the process of planning a return to their usual workplaces following the pausing of national shielding. I was one […]
Matt Morgan: Another letter from ICU
I wish I didn’t need to write again, but the seas may be getting darker once more. Yet in their depths, there are glimmers of hope that break to the […]