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We need an equitable and coordinated global approach to covid-19 vaccination
Vaccine nationalism will hinder our ability to effectively combat covid-19 This month, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), repeated his concerns about the ugly face […]
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 […]
Have we reached “peak neoliberalism” in the UK’s covid-19 response?
With government–backed furlough schemes in use, and additional funds flowing to the NHS like no time since 2010, it might not initially seem as though the past year represents the […]
We need to move towards a student-centred application process for foundation training
Close to 8000 final year medical students recently submitted their applications for their first employment as doctors in the National Health Service (NHS).1 The United Kingdom’s Foundation Programme Office’s (UKFPO) […]
Covid-19: How to break the cycle of lockdowns
As the UK waits out its third national lockdown, Christina Pagel lays out the steps needed for a country to exit the cycle […]
Sick days during covid-19—trainees need more support
Trainee doctors are experiencing a great deal of anxiety about how covid related absences will affect their progression in training, writes Rachel Pillai […]
Iatrogenesis and harm in covid-19—when medical care ignores social forces
When we fail to recognise the systematically unequal social forces that drive the spread of disease, it can lead to harm, say Seth Holmes and colleagues […]
Chris Ham: The United Kingdom’s poor record on covid-19 is a failure of policy learning
Weaknesses in governance led to avoidable mistakes, says Chris Ham, as the UK death toll passes 100,000 […]
Lindsay Graham: Eradicating food poverty—it is our duty to care and to advocate
In a former life I was a community nurse visiting those who needed healthcare at home for whatever reason that might have been. I tended post-operative wounds, cared for the […]