The covid-19 pandemic has generated, fuelled, and amplified a wide range of emotional responses. This is either directly through personal or family related morbidity and mortality, or indirectly through the […]
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Covid-19: what do the data show on deaths registered in England and Wales?
This week saw the UK pass the tragic milestone of more than 100,000 deaths from covid-19, becoming the first country in Europe to do so. Throughout the pandemic there have […]
Up the line to death: covid-19 has revealed a mortal betrayal of the world’s healthcare workers
The covid-19 pandemic is taking a harsh toll on healthcare workers. In the Mirror newspaper on 20 January 2021: “52,000 NHS staff are off sick with covid.” [1] Over 850 […]
Covid-19: How to break the cycle of lockdowns
As the UK waits out its third national lockdown, Christina Pagel lays out the steps needed for a country to exit the cycle […]
Sam Allen: Tear down structural barriers to close gender pay gap
Female hospital doctors are paid nearly 20 percent less than male hospital doctors. Not adjusted for contracted hours, that figure rises to 24.4 percent. For GPs, it’s as high as […]
Those with the least have suffered the most during the covid-19 pandemic
People on the lowest incomes have faced the worst of the pandemic’s economic bite, write Ian Hamilton and Aleks Collingwood […]
The isolation paradox: proposed localised care training during the covid-19 pandemic in Scotland
Isolation is a double-edged sword: for infection prevention and control it means an island safe from the invasion of the coronavirus, but for many in this increasingly globalised age it […]
Revisiting the UK’s strategy for delaying the second dose of the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine
Neutralising antibody immunity likely to fall with delayed dose, say these authors […]
Philip Scott: How to cure “infonaemia”
Philip Scott describes why BMJ Health & Care Informatics is launching a programme of patient and carer involvement […]
Andrew Hayward: We have entered a dangerous new phase of the pandemic
On the last day of 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) received the first reports of an unusual cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. [1] Since then the causative […]