With NHS staff looking set to lose free parking, Jennifer Darlow argues that the reintroduction of charges signifies how healthcare workers are valued by the government […]
Month: July 2020
Urgent action is needed to reduce widening inequalities in childhood obesity
A recent Public Health England (PHE) report on childhood obesity trends in England up to the 2018-2019 academic year makes for uncomfortable reading. [1] The report draws on data from […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Choosing treatments for covid-19
Since SARS-CoV-2 started causing covid-19 many different treatments have been studied, with varying degrees of success, mostly none. An incomplete list of pharmacological interventions that have been registered in clinical […]
Are we employing the most efficient learning tools to help today’s clinicians and organisations combat covid-19?
No doubt in the future there will be an intensive review of what happened and what we learned from the covid-19 pandemic, but what about right now? Are we employing, […]
We must rapidly learn lessons from Leicester’s local lockdown to prevent further outbreaks
The residents of Leicester are devastated that their city has become the first city in England to be put under a strict local lockdown. It was imposed due to the […]
Patients’ experiences of “longcovid” are missing from the NHS narrative
Patients and carers must be involved in any initiatives to explore the long term impacts of covid-19 […]
Young people with cancer are helping one another through the covid-19 pandemic
How a pan-European cancer patient organisation is tackling a funding shortage while helping the wider community […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—10 July 2020
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Unimaginable loss during unprecedented times—reflections of a bereavement midwife
Staff caring for bereaved parents have had to adapt quickly so they can continue to support people during one of the most difficult times of their lives, writes Sarah Cullen […]
Miriam Fine-Goulden: In the eye of an inflammatory storm
When the pandemic started, paediatricians expected to be the spectators or the understudies. We knew from China that covid-19 appeared to spare children, though we didn’t know how or why; […]