On 9 September, Boris Johnson, the UK’s prime minister, shared his ambitions for using new types of coronavirus tests. “In the near future we hope to start using testing to […]
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The plastic pandemic: could the environmental impact of the NHS response to covid-19 be reduced?
The NHS disposes of around 133,000 tonnes of plastic each year, but only about 5% of it is recovered. The recently published Delivering a “Net Zero” National Health Service document […]
Caring for those who care—free parking is not it
Focusing on free car parking as a way to “reward” hospital staff is neither equitable, nor beneficial to health and wellbeing, say Harriet Larrington-Spencer and Matthew Jackson […]
With a doctor facing the death penalty, the international medical community must act now
Since the arrest of Ahmadreza Djalali in Iran in 2016, human rights, medical, and scientific organizations have condemned each step of the Iranian government’s persecution of Djalali, a leading Swedish-Iranian […]
The importance of the morning coffee break
Every morning at around 10.30am a screen message is circulated in our GP practice; “Coffee in 10 minutes?” The replies follow, “Yes, see you soon,” “Will be up as soon […]
Could Slovakia’s mass testing programme work in England?
What is happening in Slovakia and what lessons might it hold for the UK? […]
Hello, NHS 111 First?—Call before you walk
Before NHS 111 First is rolled out nationally, we need data from more extensive and longer term pilots, say Simon Hodes and Neena Jha Our medical advent calendars this year […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—4 December 2020
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Andy Cowper: Four key things you may have missed this week
The obvious excitement of the news that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for covid-19 for rollout in the UK, coupled with the minor-key […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Calcium connections
Some of the biomedical words first cited from 1978 in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (Table 1) are connected with calcium—nimodipine, calmodulin, and alfacalcidol. Table 1. Biomedical words (n=28) in […]