“Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease [NAFLD] is an illness many of us have never heard of but it is much more common than cirrhosis and far more baffling.” These are the […]
Patient and public perspectives
Learning from doctors with long covid
When Sarah Burns and Sue Warren started a support group for doctors with long covid, they found a number of people struggling with new experiences, losses, and vulnerabilities […]
Lessons learnt about PPI from the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare’s first fully virtual conference
What we had planned In November, the International Forum for Quality and Safety in Healthcare hosted its first fully virtual conference. Over the last few years there has been an […]
We need to do more to understand chronic vocal symptoms of covid-19
The three of us have developed significant and enduring vocal symptoms (10+ months) after contracting covid-19 infection early in 2020. None of us were hospitalised, and we have struggled for […]
The psychological burden of delayed cancer surgery—what can we learn from this pandemic?
Here we are again, in another pandemic surge. We have been here before. What lessons have we learned? Have we learned anything? I wear multiple hats. Professionally, I am a […]
If the courts won’t act, parliament must reconsider the case for assisted dying
In 1990, after a road traffic accident, I became irreversibly quadriplegic. I require care around the clock and am in constant pain. I am 65; as I get older, I […]
Ella Balasa: Antibiotic resistance, chronic disease, and covid-19—a triple threat
Antibiotic resistance is singlehandedly the greatest threat to vulnerable populations such as people like me with cystic fibrosis. And currently, this threat is compounded by the emergence of the covid-19 […]
Nisreen Alwan: We must pay more attention to covid-19 morbidity in the second year of the pandemic
We must measure the impacts of long covid by establishing patient registers, says Nisreen Alwan […]
Urgent and emergency care-only service means misery for people who need help most
National Voices is a coalition of health and care charities. These charities have a deep understanding of what is going on in the lives of the people, families, and communities […]
Chloe Beale: My illness does not make me a better doctor
Chloe Beale unpicks the tropes of many doctor-patient narratives: her lived experience of mental illness hasn’t given her special insight into her patients, she says, and it is not a […]