On 11 February 2021, The BMJ hosted a webinar on testing asymptomatic individuals for SARS-CoV-2. An expert panel discussed the role of asymptomatic transmission, as well as testing in a […]
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Despite NHS England’s focus on the importance of health system integration, the government spent £10 billion on a largely outsourced Test and Trace system, which has been plagued with criticisms […]
New German digital project paves the way for online access to personal electronic health records
On 1 January 2021, the largest digitization project in the German healthcare system—the electronic patient health record (elektronische Patientenakte – ePA)—was launched after sixteen years of preparation. The aim of […]
A food allergy epidemic… or just another case of overdiagnosis?
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Covid-19 vaccination programme: where do people with mental health difficulties lie within the order of priority?
The news of the first MHRA-approved vaccine for covid-19 in December 2020, with plans for large-scale implementation of a vaccination programme in the UK and other countries, has brought great […]
What makes new variants of SARS-CoV-2 concerning is not where they come from, but the mutations they contain
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Co-production of research with sex workers as a political act
‘[Researchers] cannot deliver solutions to the problems of the oppressed but can assist people in the process of achieving the changes that they seek. Community partners and marginal communities are […]
Health policy and systems research: ethical challenges in co-production of knowledge
Should health research be undertaken solely by researchers who understand the intricacies of its methodology and ethics or can it also involve non-researchers who represent key constituencies, to enrich its […]
Building a collaborative research culture for multisectoral policy and implementation in Cambodia through co-production
Cambodia successfully achieved most of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) health targets and is now actively working towards achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 health targets to ensure healthy […]