Tackling the NHS backlog doesn’t just call for time and money, it needs transformation across the pathway, say Robert Ede and Sean Phillips Much has been written about the waiting […]
Month: August 2021
Nick Hopkinson: Against “stupidity” and the tyranny of merit
Albert Einstein’s observation, “two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe,” has been much cited since the emergence of […]
Camilla Kingdon: Cuts to Universal Credit will leave children hungry
The number of people claiming Universal Credit has increased by 98% since March 2020. Increased levels of unemployment and job insecurity have meant that families that were “getting by” before […]
Will covid-19 turn the tide in India’s political discourse?
India’s healthcare system has for a long time been a mirror image of the country’s many contradictions. With a health budget of about 1.3% of GDP, it has a woefully […]
Chris Hopson: Latest NHS performance data confirm the service is under huge pressure
It’s a huge relief to everyone in the NHS that the predictions of 100,000 covid infections a day, once social distancing restrictions were lifted on 19 July 2021, haven’t materialised. […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Hobson–Jobson
During the recent debate about the use of the word “curry”, I looked it up in Hobson–Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, […]
Learning lessons from covid-19 to reduce global health inequity
Kiran CR Patel and colleagues outline six key ways in which we can improve equity during the pandemic and in its aftermath Scenes initially from Italy, then Brazil, and more […]
The legacies of colonialism: putting African covid-19 vaccination into context
Vaccination is an essential tool to stop the spread of infectious diseases. Yet, as the Delta variant of SARS-COV-2 spreads across the world, Africa, with a covid-19 vaccination rate of […]
Florence Wedmore: This is climate breakdown, and it is having a real effect on our patients
As the IPCC issue a stark report warning of the immediate dangers of the climate emergency, Florence Wedmore highlights the impact of hospital flooding on patient care […]
Martin McKee on “Spike: The virus versus the people”
How was it that the United Kingdom did so badly during the initial waves of the covid-19 pandemic? This is a question that has puzzled many people, but not, apparently, […]