Michael Marmot and Jessica Allen: Building back fairer in Greater Manchester
Covid-19 mortality was 25% higher in Greater Manchester than in England as a whole, finds new report by Michael Marmot and colleagues […]
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After restriction: why the public can only fulfill its responsibilities if the government fulfills theirs
If people are to act responsibly they need their government to fulfil its own responsibilities to make safe behaviour possible, argue these authors […]
#IAmPhilipLee—supporting frontline clinicians and the role of the GMC
A recent Twitter controversy opened old wounds about the use of professionalism as a tool for policing ethnic minority doctors, writes Aaliya Goyal […]
Racism and the General Medical Council
A recent ruling that the GMC discriminated against a doctor on the grounds of race, calls into question the future role of the regulator, argue these authors In a landmark […]
Richard Smith: Progress towards a carbon net-zero NHS
Last week the Climate Change Committee (CCC) reported that the UK government is making poor progress with its aim of achieving carbon net-zero by 2045. The report also showed that […]
Feminist movements are key to public health equity
We need greater investment in feminist movements, one of the most effective ways to advance health outcomes for women and girls and to achieve public health equity, say Emma Fulu […]
Racism is everywhere in the NHS, we urgently need to find solutions
Zeshan Qureshi and Jameela Sheikh discuss what they have learnt from talking to healthcare professionals and medical students about their experiences of racism in the NHS What has it been […]
Pivotal not peripheral: the role of administration in the NHS
Before the pandemic hit, The King’s Fund, Healthwatch England, and National Voices embarked on a project to better understand how administrative practices in the NHS impact on people’s experiences of […]
“Povid:” predictions for a post-corona world
POVID, or a “post-covid” world may still seem like a distant dream. Peter Brindley and Matt Morgan imagine what life might be like as we learn to live with covid […]
The delay to the NHS data grab provides more time to find out what it really means for patients
Now that the date for extracting patients’ data from primary care has been postponed, the government should use this time to to enable meaningful patient consent to be obtained, say […]