Making outpatient care sustainable for the future
Our focus needs to be on working with our patients to ensure their needs are met […]
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Unpacking vaccine “hesitancy:” the spectrum of vaccine acceptance
Media reports investigating the challenges that lead to relatively low covid-19 vaccine uptake rates in younger age groups highlight a need to consider “vaccine hesitancy” not as a single phenomenon, […]
Solving systemic violence against healthcare workers in India
Violence against healthcare workers is a chronic and growing problem in India. Siddhesh Zadey and colleagues look at how it can be tackled […]
The £20 cut to Universal Credit is the wrong decision, taken at the worst possible time
On Wednesday 6 October—on the same day that the UK prime minister Boris Johnson delivers his leadership speech to the Conservative Party Conference—5.5 million households will see the biggest overnight […]
For abortion providers like me, threats and vitriol are an everyday reality in Texas
The new abortion bill in Texas has made abortion care even more inaccessible and heightened the risk for providers, writes Blair Cushing […]
Building the next generation of digital health services in Europe
In an Opinion piece published in The BMJ recently, Dipak Kalra called for a recalibration of our approach to data protection. [1] He suggested we should reconsider how we value […]
On the psychology and politics of wearing masks
Throughout the covid pandemic, there has been a constant concern that the public would be the weak point in the response—either unwilling or psychologically unable to abide by the measures […]
Will the NHS survive without GPs?
That rhetorical questions like the recent one posed by some in the media are even asked shows how deeply ill-informed and distorted the discourse on healthcare has become in the […]
South Korea’s My HealthWay: A “digital highway” of personal health records, but to where?
South Korea’s rollout of a new electronic health record system will give patients greater accessibility and control over their data, but questions about security and privacy remain unanswered, writes Junho […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—24 September 2021
Raising urate levels in early Parkinson’s disease The quest for better treatments for Parkinson’s disease continues. This small randomised trial of 298 people with early disease found that treatment with […]