Imagine arriving at the supermarket. You head over to where you normally start your shop only to find there is nothing there. You head to the next aisle; on one […]
Patient and public perspectives
Catherine White: Advance care planning and why it matters now
Catherine White underlines the importance of the public having conversations about advance care planning, and of healthcare professionals asking about patients’ wishes […]
Lorna Collins: Covid-19: No one seems to know how to help people with mental health problems during lockdown
Lorna Collins discusses how covid-19 is having drastic effects on our mental health The current chaos caused by covid-19 is hard for all of us. It has drastically changed our […]
Daniel Baker: No assumptions should be made about people’s quality of life irrespective of any disability
Daniel Baker, who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, discusses his fears about covid-19 and whether he would receive critical care […]
Dawn P Richards: Covid-19 is bringing unpredictability and fear to the rheumatology community
There is widespread concern and fear about what covid-19 will bring, says Dawn P Richards […]
The views of patients and the public should be included in policy responses to covid-19
Patients and our communities are a critical partner in or out of crisis and in the quest towards more equitable, sustainable and resilient health systems […]
James Munro: In a pandemic, does patient feedback still matter?
I’ve spent 15 years advocating for the importance of online patient feedback in health and social care. But in the throes of a global pandemic, with tens of thousands of […]
Emma Doble: Living in a high-risk group for covid-19
Emma Cartwright describes what it is like being in a high risk group for covid-19 […]
Don Redding: Talking about a patient revolution
“Industrial healthcare is cruel to patients and cruel to clinicians,” Victor Montori told a gathering of English clinicians, students, and policy workers at the recent “Rethinking Medicine” meeting in London on […]
Recording consultations—an inevitable future which could improve healthcare
Patient start recording visits In 2014, I wrote a short article in The BMJ called “Patientgate—digital recordings change everything” [1], where I argued that the arrival of smartphones and their […]