The need for a new rehabilitation strategy in the UK
Many groups of patients would benefit from rehabilitation management. We need an integrated workforce to care for them, say Allan Cole, Miriam Duffy, and Jane Dacre […]
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Kit Yates: (How) can we reach herd immunity?
The term “herd immunity” first found its way into the UK’s public consciousness very early on in the pandemic. The UK’s chief scientific officer, Patrick Vallance, talked about allowing “enough […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—16 July 2021
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Racism at the GMC—it is time to take action
To many ethnic minority doctors, an employment tribunal’s damning verdict, that “there might be discrimination infecting the referral process” at the General Medical Council (GMC) is not surprising. The regulator […]
Enforced restrictions to care home access—unfair, unnecessary, and harmful
Separating people with dementia from their families leads to emotional distress and can trigger the worsening of clinical symptoms, write Aida Suárez-González and Jules Storr […]
Daniel Sokol: Is the NHS really under “unprecedented” pressure?
On 9 July 2021, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges—the coordinating body for the UK and Ireland’s medical Royal Colleges and Faculties—issued a statement. It called for a “responsible approach […]
Kent Buse: Healthy societies—fixing systems not people
Feminists of all stripes and genders point to the patriarchal, gender unequal, and at times, misogynistic “system” that discriminates against women and other groups burdened by inequalities in power—holding them […]
The government must invest in additional capacity in the NHS and public health to deal with future shocks
The NHS is back in the headlines as hospital admissions of patients with covid-19 increase again and work to restore services for patients with other conditions gathers momentum. Underlying the […]
Fresh air unmasked
As the UK government announce an end to covid-19 restrictions in England, Christine Peters and Tom Lawton discuss why they will still be wearing a mask Masked or unmasked? That […]
Why all the secrecy around Innova lateral flow tests?
The basis for the MHRA extending its exceptional use authorisation for Innova lateral flow tests must be published immediately if public trust is to be restored, say Allyson M Pollock […]