North Devon District Hospital is a small remote district general hospital (DGH), with a number of trainees living on their own. Due to a reduced support network during the covid-19 […]
Month: February 2021
Lessons learnt about PPI from the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare’s first fully virtual conference
What we had planned In November, the International Forum for Quality and Safety in Healthcare hosted its first fully virtual conference. Over the last few years there has been an […]
Meaningful patient participation in online events: #InvolvingPatientsOnline
In the nine years since it was first formulated, the Patients Included charter has become an important indicator of quality and inclusiveness for organisers of healthcare conferences looking to ensure […]
Community pharmacy has been an indispensable element of the covid-19 response
The ongoing covid-19 crisis has taught Europe’s healthcare systems several important lessons. One of them is the need for effective organisation and deployment of primary healthcare to ensure the continuity […]
Contact tracing of in-patients with covid-19: the use of volunteers to enhance NHS Test and Trace
Contact tracing is a fundamental part of controlling the covid-19 pandemic. The vaccination rollout continues at pace, but basic public health strategies will be needed for months, possibly years. Finding […]
The NICE draft guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation need key revisions
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) draft guidelines for the management of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) contain recommendations at odds with available scientific data and recently updated guidelines […]
How can we address covid-19 vaccine hesitancy and improve vaccine acceptance?
Vaccination offers the UK the best exit strategy from the covid-19 pandemic. [1] To accomplish this objective, achieving high population coverage of covid-19 vaccination is essential. However, despite the good […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Medical light sabres
The treatment known as photopheresis, or extracorporeal photopheresis, was first described by RL Edelson in 1984, which explains its appearance in this week’s list of words that are cited in […]
Adopting an anti-racist medical curriculum
There are currently calls for changes to the way migration, colonialism, and Britain’s role in the slave trade are taught in the school curriculum and included in teacher training. We […]
What role could art play in improving visual literacy in dermatology?
Dermatology has evolved over the years, but the common thread remains visual literacy. Visual literacy is the learning, understanding, and interpretation of images by the observer. [1] Visual literacy is […]