Carmel Hughes, Michael Tunney and Kate Lapane look at why covid-19 deaths in care homes are not being counted, and what needs to be done to protect those most at risk […]
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Covid-19 highlights the long standing contribution that ethnic minority doctors have made to the NHS
Healthcare workers from ethnic minorities have long contributed to the NHS. It is time to recognise this, say Paramjit Gill and Kiran Patel Doctors from ethnic minorities have been supporting […]
Covid-19 and sub-Saharan Africa’s critical care infrastructure
The ICU capacity that is critical to managing covid-19 complications is severely limited in much of the region, warn Edgar Asiimwe and Saraswati Kache […]
Jonathan Cohen: Covid-19 and the power of public health
We all crave the moment when the spotlight swivels towards our line of work, when the professional expertise we’ve been amassing over years in obscurity becomes the stuff everyone hangs […]
Clare Taylor: For people with heart failure, covid-19 presents a challenge
Heart failure is a frightening term for a patient to hear at diagnosis, and for those living with the condition these are frightening times. In the UK, the daily announcement […]
Jessie Colquhoun: Covid-19 leaves 1500 GP trainees’ future in limbo
On 19 March 2020, the GP Clinical Skills Assessment exam (CSA) was cancelled by the Royal College of General Practitioners until further notice as a result of the covid-19 crisis. The […]
Catherine Millington-Sanders: Providing palliative care in a pandemic
During this pandemic, more than ever, we share a common human anxiety of being affected by covid-19 and of experiencing death in our communities. Constant questions in our minds are: […]
Mike Clarke: How can we avoid research waste during the covid-19 pandemic and plan for the future?
Around the world and across disciplines, researchers have turned their attention to covid-19, but we need to ensure this effort is a help rather than a hindrance, says Mike Clarke […]
Miriam Fine-Goulden: We can do this—I have faith in us
When I was 18, I went to Poland to visit the site of the concentration camps at Auschwitz, Majdanek and Treblinka. Nothing could prepare me for the utter horror of […]
Covid-19: If we can’t protect our workers, we can’t protect our patients
At the beginning of March, Roberto Stella, a GP, from Busto Arsizio near Milan, became the first doctor to die from covid-19 in Italy. Only days earlier he had attended […]