It was my pleasure to welcome five brilliant women to the GMC’s council this month. From ethical leadership to immersive technologies, the expertise they bring with them is testament to […]
Year: 2020
The health community must act on air pollution as an issue of health justice
On Wednesday 16 December 2020, air pollution was recorded as a cause of death for the first time, following a second inquest into the death of 9-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah in […]
Karen E Lasser: Vaccine hesitancy—finding common ground
In the early 2000s, I had occasion to visit the spa town of Baden-Baden, in Southern Germany. In addition to taking the spa waters, I visited Casino Baden-Baden. I do […]
Andrew Moscrop: Deprivation and the failure of Boris Johnson’s covid-19 weight loss plan
“If we all do our bit,” said Boris Johnson, launching a Government strategy to tackle obesity during the summer of 2020, “we can reduce our health risks and protect ourselves […]
Richard Smith: How to stop affluence destroying us
The starting point for John Kenneth Galbraith’s book The Affluent Society is that for most of recorded history most people have been poor, meaning that they struggled to feed, clothe, […]
Covid-19 has shown us why it is important that medical education promotes innovation
What can we learn from the great medical innovators of the past, asks David Jenkins The covid-19 pandemic has the potential to transform medical education. [1] The ramifications of the […]
Covid-19 and everyday experiences of hardship: why charitable provision is not enough
Many commentators have rightly observed that the coronavirus pandemic has amplified long-standing socioeconomic and health inequalities, and exposed both the fragility of the UK’s social security system and the growing […]
Healthcare workers who breastfeed should be offered the covid-19 vaccine
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has advised that no breastfeeding woman should receive the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine. NHS Trusts have interpreted this as a blanket-ban. The […]
Mike Gill: Covid-19 Christmas restrictions—wrong decision, wrong time, wrong reason
The wide-ranging harms caused by unnecessarily delaying the decision on Christmas covid-19 restrictions are being felt by the whole country, says Mike Gill […]
Transforming the everyday into something beautiful: How origami can help encourage self-care
Origami provides a practical tool for self-care, to soothe and create a tiny bit of perfection when the world feels chaotic, writes Lizzie Burns […]