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 […]
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 […]
Nye Bevan, the son of a coal miner and arguably the founder of the NHS, once said “The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.” […]
In 2020, we wrote an opinion piece about covid fatigue that struck a chord with healthcare workers across the world. At that time, we were starting to see the toll […]
The covid-19 pandemic has brought particular challenges for people seeking asylum in the UK. Already with poor health outcomes, torture survivors’ and other asylum seekers’ vulnerability to covid-19 is increased, […]
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 […]
As the pace of the race to the vaccine becomes less salient, equal access to vaccines will become a more prominent issue […]
On 28 January The BMJ hosted a webinar on covid-19 and schools. An expert panel discussed the risks of community transmission to students and teachers, the clinical risks of covid-19 […]
We must measure the impacts of long covid by establishing patient registers, says Nisreen Alwan […]
Disabled people have been significantly impacted by the covid-19 pandemic. Evidence from the UK suggests that 59% of all covid-19 deaths were disabled people, a death rate two to three […]
