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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The public aren’t complacent, they’re confused—how the UK government created “alert fatigue”
The government’s frequently changing policies have risked people breaking rules they are unaware of or subjectively interpreting rules they are unclear on, write Simon Williams and Kimberly Dienes […]
Chaand Nagpaul: The NHS won’t cope with a premature end to lockdown
As the rate of infection begins to slow and the number of vaccines delivered hits another milestone, the political clamour for the government to announce the date on which the […]
Where’s the integration between public health and primary care in the response to covid-19?
Despite NHS England’s focus on the importance of health system integration, the government spent £10 billion on a largely outsourced Test and Trace system, which has been plagued with criticisms […]
New German digital project paves the way for online access to personal electronic health records
On 1 January 2021, the largest digitization project in the German healthcare system—the electronic patient health record (elektronische Patientenakte – ePA)—was launched after sixteen years of preparation. The aim of […]