Patients and their care partners are usually the first to notice new or changing symptoms and are the connecting “thread” between different healthcare encounters. In this article Sigall Bell, Fabienne […]
Month: October 2021
Covid-19 vaccination in children, adolescents, and young adults: how can we ensure high vaccination uptake?
After a rapid start, the pace of the United Kingdom’s (UK) covid-19 vaccination programme has slowed down while the UK still faces high infection, hospitalisation, and death rates, and a […]
NHS trusts should be openly sharing their data on ethnicity and recruitment
Data on recruitment success by ethnicity are an important barometer of how inclusive, or discriminatory, NHS trusts are. As such, hospitals should be sharing this information freely and using it […]
Cognitive dissonance during the pandemic—lessons for research and policy
We were notified last week of a covid-19 case in my seven-year-old daughter’s class. My wife and I both work in the NHS, but we still had to recheck the […]
A step towards decolonising medical training
Charu Chopra looks at how knowledge of our shared past and present could help the NHS to challenge workplace inequalities and discrimination […]
Chris Ham: Dithering and delays hampered the UK’s covid-19 response
A major report from a year-long joint inquiry by the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee and Science and Technology Committee offers a forensic analysis of six aspects […]
“Following the science,” but was it the right science? A Parliamentary report raises serious questions about the UK’s covid-19 response
A new report from two House of Commons committees highlights the UK’s failed pandemic response. Martin McKee unpicks the findings […]
Elaine Mulcahy: A healthy prescription for a cleaner future
In a powerful letter to be delivered during COP26, the world’s health community will call on world leaders to take real action to put the world on a path that […]
Exercise Alice: the UK government tested the response to a coronavirus, but why are we only discovering this now?
If we don’t seem to have learned much from Exercise Alice, what can we learn from the attempts to conceal it, asks Martin McKee […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Stereoisomerism
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been won by David MacMillan at Princeton and Benjamin List at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Muelheim an der Ruhr. They developed a […]