The EU’s vaccination campaign has gathered pace and is expected to further accelerate in the coming weeks following a surge in available vaccines. This gain in momentum is sorely needed: […]
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Political censorship in academic journals sets a dangerous new precedent
The academic community must develop a strong position to shield journals, their editors, and staff, against pressure to enforce censorship. […]
Leave no one behind: prioritising inclusion health groups for covid-19 vaccination
The covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated long standing health inequalities experienced by socially excluded groups and without an inclusive approach to covid-19 vaccination these inequalities could be widened further by the […]
The government’s poor handling of the covid-19 pandemic shows it is time to declare our limitations as well as interests
Admission of our limitations is crucial to good decision making, it is time we openly acknowledge these, says Amitava Banerjee In healthcare and health research, we spend a lot of […]
From music to medicine: Learning from our hobbies and each other
Covid-19 knocked communal hobbies on their head. My weekly community wind band rehearsals were banned and concerts cancelled. But learning from our hobbies can inform our clinical work. If you […]
The UK’s coronavirus policy still places too much responsibility—and blame—on the public
The government’s current emphasis on personal responsibility and showing “common sense” once again displaces blame for their ineffective response to covid-19, says Simon Williams […]
Improving trust and solidarity could help release the full power of artificial intelligence in healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already started to disrupt the traditional medical model. While a new medical model is being incubated, there is still long way to go for it to […]
It is more urgent than ever that we end the criminalisation of poverty
The story of inequalities in health has been a long one, beginning, in the NHS era, with the Black report and progressing through the Health Divide, the Acheson report, to […]
A medical department with memory: learning from adverse events so history doesn’t repeat itself
The attribution of “human error” must mark the beginning, rather than the end, of the search for contributing factors to an adverse event, say Jonathan Cohen and Sephalie Patel […]
Will the Indian variant B.1.617.2 delay England’s lockdown roadmap?
On Monday 10 May Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, gave an optimistic appraisal of the state of the UK’s covid pandemic and announced that the next step in easing […]