In the noughties, as an attempt to improve care for the dying across healthcare, there was a wholesale adoption and rollout of a pathway to systematise and quality assure care […]
Year: 2020
Virtual trials: looking beyond covid-19
The covid-19 pandemic has caused widescale disruption to global biomedical research activities. These have been acutely felt within clinical trials which were otherwise active, with most research on other conditions […]
Chris Ham: Engaging people and communities will help avoid a resurgence of covid-19
The decision to lockdown Leicester because of a resurgence of covid-19 in the community marks a significant moment in the evolution of the pandemic in England. It demonstrates a shift […]
Covid-19 in the US: We’re not getting full value from our data
The way many states currently collect and present data means that debates on policy fall prey to convenient narratives, rather than evidence based assessments, say Caitlin M Rivers and Natalie […]
Kieran Quinn: We need to raise awareness of the benefits of palliative care services for patients with terminal non cancer illness
The road to death for patients with serious illness is often a rocky one, marked by dramatic and unpredictable exacerbations and can result in potentially avoidable emergency department visits and […]
Kimberly Sue: Behind covid-19’s surges and spikes are people struggling to provide care
Kimberly Sue describes the frustration and fear she feels as a physician witnessing the steep rise of covid-19 cases in the US […]
Reducing barriers to data access for research in the public interest—lessons from covid-19
The covid-19 outbreak has sparked increased awareness of the importance of timely, system-wide data for examining trends and modelling different scenarios to inform policy response. [1-5] The scale and speed […]
Mary Ford Neal: Health professionals’ rights at risk when Parliament debates Domestic Abuse Bill
Today (Monday 6 July) Parliament will consider proposed amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill. One of the proposed amendments—New Clause 29 (NC 29)—has the potential to eradicate the statutory right of […]
We cannot afford to lose more time in the fight against covid-19 in the US
We are American public health practitioners. In addition to our work in the United States, we lived and worked in South Africa during the height of that country’s HIV epidemic. […]
Covid-19 has highlighted the inadequate, and unequal, access to high quality green spaces
At this time of national crisis, the importance of access to green spaces and nature for physical and mental health has been starkly highlighted. The period of lockdown has been […]