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Covid-19 vaccines: patients left confused over rollout of third primary doses

October 15, 2021

“How a society treats its most vulnerable is always the measure of its humanity” is a well-known quote often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. With the “levelling up” agenda being quoted […]

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Martin Marshall: We need long-term, realistic, and tangible solutions to solve the crisis in general practice

October 15, 2021

This week’s announcement gave us a short-term sticking plaster that will do little to improve the morale of our beleaguered profession or the care we can deliver to our patients, […]

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Racial profiling for induction of labour: improving safety or perpetuating racism?

October 15, 2021

The disproportionate mortality and morbidity in mothers and babies from Black, Asian, and ethnic minority backgrounds as compared to white mothers and babies is clearly evidenced. [1-3] There have been […]

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Charlotte Blease: We need to talk about “closed notes”

October 15, 2021

Lack of easy access to personal health records is associated with adverse consequences for patients, writes Charlotte Blease “The cancer might be stage 1b. Then again it could be 3b.”  […]

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Life lessons from the pain clinic

October 14, 2021

In the wake of a bereavement, Ruth Moore describes how she felt a new kinship with the patients she cares for who live with chronic pain […]

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Co-development of OurDX—an online tool to facilitate patient and family engagement in the diagnostic process

October 14, 2021

Patients and their care partners are usually the first to notice new or changing symptoms and are the connecting “thread” between different healthcare encounters. In this article Sigall Bell, Fabienne […]

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Covid-19 vaccination in children, adolescents, and young adults: how can we ensure high vaccination uptake?

October 14, 2021

After a rapid start, the pace of the United Kingdom’s (UK) covid-19 vaccination programme has slowed down while the UK still faces high infection, hospitalisation, and death rates, and a […]

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NHS trusts should be openly sharing their data on ethnicity and recruitment

October 13, 2021

Data on recruitment success by ethnicity are an important barometer of how inclusive, or discriminatory, NHS trusts are. As such, hospitals should be sharing this information freely and using it […]

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Cognitive dissonance during the pandemic—lessons for research and policy

October 13, 2021

We were notified last week of a covid-19 case in my seven-year-old daughter’s class. My wife and I both work in the NHS, but we still had to recheck the […]

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A step towards decolonising medical training

October 12, 2021

Charu Chopra looks at how knowledge of our shared past and present could help the NHS to challenge workplace inequalities and discrimination […]

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