Insights on how to improve contact tracing from a community pilot project The rates of daily infections are rising significantly. In order to save lives and to keep the UK […]
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Graham Mackenzie: Viewing the covid-19 pandemic through the lens of social media
The covid-19 pandemic has had a sudden and brutal impact on everybody’s work, leisure, social and family life for the past eight months, with financial hardship for many. During lockdown […]
John Dean: The current model of anonymous feedback should be scrapped
These days if I want some positive feedback, I look on eBay; I rarely get any at work. But as a hospital consultant I am responsible for giving feedback to […]
Covid-19 and ethnicity: how the information gap exacerbates inequality
Trust must be rebuilt within BAME communities if information gaps are to be bridged, say Rooah Omer, Shruti Patel, and Danielle Solomon […]
“Hands Up for Our Health” calls for suspension of NHS charging regulations
If there is a positive message to be drawn from the misery of the covid-19 pandemic, it is that of community. Of people in their thousands volunteering to support the […]
Katherine Murdoch: Foundation interim doctors—a role beyond the pandemic?
The internet is loading, families are gathering around computer screens and the medical school dean is preparing his speech. It is the twenty seventh of March and instead of being […]
John Oldham: No turning back from service redesigns in light of covid-19
Last year over 70% of consultations in general practice were face to face, despite the technological availability of remote consultations. In April 2020, in light of the covid-19 pandemic and […]
Navina Evans and Derek Feeley: Quality healthcare means equity
A focus on equity must become culturally embedded in the NHS as part of “the way we do things around here,” say Navina Evans and Derek Feeley […]
Martin J Vernon: Discharge “criteria to reside:” policy lever or blunt instrument?
As the pandemic approached England in early 2020, government policy decisions ensured most people stayed at home and NHS hospitals were largely protected. Yet some lives were not saved that […]
“Out of sight but not out of mind”: perspectives from non-patient facing doctors during the covid-19 pandemic
The covid-19 pandemic has presented immense challenges to the National Health Service, but also to the NHS workforce. With up to one third of staff off with covid-19 or self-isolating […]