Ethnic minority groups, such as those of Black and Asian backgrounds, continue to be disproportionately affected by covid-19. [1] A large number of studies have emerged investigating the relationship between […]
Month: January 2021
Daniel Sokol: Doctors should not criticise people who flout covid rules
The covid-19 pandemic has caused such chaos and misery in hospitals that some doctors are taking to social media and the press to express anger at people who flout covid […]
Christine Tomkins: Covid complaints and claims hard to bear for frontline healthcare workers
A report out last week by the House of Commons Public Accounts committee largely went unnoticed, but should concern all of us and not just colleagues doing their upmost to […]
We need an equitable and coordinated global approach to covid-19 vaccination
Vaccine nationalism will hinder our ability to effectively combat covid-19 This month, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), repeated his concerns about the ugly face […]
Chloe Beale: My illness does not make me a better doctor
Chloe Beale unpicks the tropes of many doctor-patient narratives: her lived experience of mental illness hasn’t given her special insight into her patients, she says, and it is not a […]
Have we reached “peak neoliberalism” in the UK’s covid-19 response?
With government–backed furlough schemes in use, and additional funds flowing to the NHS like no time since 2010, it might not initially seem as though the past year represents the […]
We need to move towards a student-centred application process for foundation training
Close to 8000 final year medical students recently submitted their applications for their first employment as doctors in the National Health Service (NHS).1 The United Kingdom’s Foundation Programme Office’s (UKFPO) […]
Covid-19: How to break the cycle of lockdowns
As the UK waits out its third national lockdown, Christina Pagel lays out the steps needed for a country to exit the cycle […]
Sick days during covid-19—trainees need more support
Trainee doctors are experiencing a great deal of anxiety about how covid related absences will affect their progression in training, writes Rachel Pillai […]
Iatrogenesis and harm in covid-19—when medical care ignores social forces
When we fail to recognise the systematically unequal social forces that drive the spread of disease, it can lead to harm, say Seth Holmes and colleagues […]