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Year: 2020
Maurizio Pompili: Suicide prevention at the time of covid-19
Due to the covid-19 pandemic, Italy has registered an incredibly high number of deaths related to the virus. The outbreak in the northern regions of the country had a higher […]
Covid-19: An efficient and effective test trace regime is not a numbers game
We need a targeted testing strategy, not a blunderbuss, say Maggie Rae and Ellis Friedman […]
Kathy McLean: The time to act on equality is now
I think it’s safe to say that my current roles will be some of my last in the NHS, having started as a junior doctor in 1983. When I was […]
Efficient, timely, and funded living evidence syntheses on maternal and newborn health during the pandemic
Living systematic reviews are needed to minimise research waste and maximise benefit, argues Shakila Thangaratinam When SARS-Cov-2 infection first hit the headlines, the obstetric community started its close watch on […]
Best practice in contact tracing: How should an effective system be organised?
Sheffield Community Contact Tracers (SCCT), a group of community activists, local volunteers, former GPs, and public health doctors, ran a contact tracing pilot project earlier this year. [1] We believe […]
Redeployed but still learning: orthopaedic trainees on the first months of the covid-19 pandemic
Although redeployment had an impact on surgical training, it also provided a unique opportunity to learn from other specialties, write Pratik Shah, David Skipsey, and George Patrick Ashcroft […]
Brexit: We must never trade what we value; our NHS and our health
No one could have predicted the scale of the change we have all experienced as a society in recent months as a result of the covid-19 pandemic, and still the […]
The health system needs to be gender responsive to address violence against women
Over the last 25 years, violence against women, particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence, has been increasingly recognised as a human rights violation and a public health problem with […]
Covid-19: what can we learn from Finland’s experience of the pandemic?
At the European Union of General Practitioners (UEMO) General Assembly in mid-June 2020, the Finnish delegation reported that the covid-19 pandemic was relatively under control in Finland. Lockdown was easing […]