The covid-19 pandemic has had a sudden and brutal impact on everybody’s work, leisure, social and family life for the past eight months, with financial hardship for many. During lockdown […]
As the world grapples with the covid-19 pandemic, the anxiety, fear, and restrictions it poses have once again brought mental health to the forefront. As health systems struggle to cope […]
For a number of years, recruitment and retention of staff in the NHS has been challenging: 10.7% of nursing posts and 6.6% of medical posts are vacant. How might the […]
Trust must be rebuilt within BAME communities if information gaps are to be bridged, say Rooah Omer, Shruti Patel, and Danielle Solomon […]
Several predictions made by experts ahead of the UK-wide lockdown in March are confirmed in a detailed re-analysis of the data. The authors explain the background to their research […]
Last year over 70% of consultations in general practice were face to face, despite the technological availability of remote consultations. In April 2020, in light of the covid-19 pandemic and […]
When my children were younger—and believed they had “rocked my world”—they offered two showstoppers. The first was an imaginary microphone drop. This communicated that the issue was dealt with; nothing […]
The covid-19 pandemic has presented immense challenges to the National Health Service, but also to the NHS workforce. With up to one third of staff off with covid-19 or self-isolating […]
We must cultivate trust, argues Raj Bhopal […]
The sky glowed a dark, sinister orange in San Francisco on 9 September; a thick layer of smoke blocking daylight like a solar eclipse (or like a scene from Bladerunner […]
