A focus on equity must become culturally embedded in the NHS as part of “the way we do things around here,” say Navina Evans and Derek Feeley […]
Month: October 2020
Martin J Vernon: Discharge “criteria to reside:” policy lever or blunt instrument?
As the pandemic approached England in early 2020, government policy decisions ensured most people stayed at home and NHS hospitals were largely protected. Yet some lives were not saved that […]
John P.A. Ioannidis: Scientific petitions and open letters in the covid-19 era
Scientific truth should not be decided by the bulk of signatories, argues John Ioannidis […]
Posterior tongue tie: the internet phenomenon driving a lucrative private industry
We are concerned by the emerging industry of private practitioners offering “posterior tongue tie” or “lip tie” division to newborns with feeding difficulties despite a paucity of evidence in this […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal review—1 October 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Vulnerable young adults in care homes have been forgotten in the pandemic
My son, an only child, was born three months prematurely in the early 1990s. He suffered a bleed into his brain at birth and now in his late 20s is […]
Sheila Bird: Test and trace in England is shaping up as a design and discovery fiasco
Failures in the design and evaluation of England’s Test and Trace programme could be resolved if we collect some core data, says Sheila Bird […]
Nicky Philpott: Ending the NHS’s contribution to the climate emergency
I met a climate refugee the other day—a woman who had lost her home in the wildfires in California. She was forced to leave her community because she could no […]
Why we need to keep using the patient made term “Long Covid”
“Long Covid” was first used by Elisa Perego as a Twitter hashtag in May to describe her own experience of a multiphasic, cyclical condition that differed in time course and […]
Andrew Goddard: Covid-19 and the workforce—ready and waiting
The NHS is preparing for the second wave and, to understand how well prepared we are, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) surveyed its members last week. Depending on your […]