Releasing the results of the Recovery trial quickly, may have saved lives. But without the data available yet, the results cannot be scrutinised. Matt Morgan considers this complex decision […]
Year: 2020
Chris Ham: A “world beating” test and trace service is far from the current reality
Instead of over promising and under delivering, ministers must be open to learning from elsewhere […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Withdrawn
Correction added 24 June 2020: The original hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin preprint paper mentioned in this article can still be viewed at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.05.20088757v1?versioned=true Some articles get retracted. Some get withdrawn. […]
Kiran Mitha: Covid-19 is testing the limits of the fragile healthcare system in Peru’s Amazon region
In the remote Peruvian state of Loreto, physicians are a rare human resource and are risking their lives to care for patients with covid-19. How many more doctors must die […]
What we all should know about PPE for healthcare workers
One of the key issues for healthcare systems around the world during the covid-19 pandemic has been the lack of sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE) available for healthcare workers. We […]
Reduction of polypharmacy by electronic decision support—less is more
Older patients with polypharmacy have become the norm rather than the exception in general practice. Treating these patients is very complex and often many specialties are involved. Keeping an overview […]
Cian Wade: Silver linings of the covid-19 pandemic for junior doctors
We have faced numerous losses during this pandemic, but there have been some silver linings, says Cian Wade […]
Programme design matters—lessons from bundled payments in the US
Joshua A. Rolnick, Joshua M. Liao, and Amol S. Navathe Bundled payments have become a prominent value-based payment arrangement. The US recently concluded a five-year national programme, the Bundled Payments […]
Covid-19: Take holiday now to prepare yourself for a second wave
Healthcare professionals should allow themselves to take a break now, before the intensity of work increases again, says Fiona Donald, vice president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists It seems […]
The NHS Race and Health Observatory—its time has come
On 30 May 2020, NHS England and the NHS Confederation launched the NHS Race and Health Observatory, a new centre to investigate the impact of race and ethnicity on people’s […]