The recession should remind us that health and wealth are political choices
While health and longevity are matters of social justice and fairness, they are also cornerstones of economic productivity […]
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Shazad Amin: The Prevent policy has no place in modern healthcare
Prevent is part of the UK Government’s counter-terrorism strategy, and in 2015 it imposed a statutory duty for public sector employees to have “due regard to the need to prevent […]
Richard Smith: The faults and dangers of an iatrocracy
The first thing that struck Bernard-Henri Lévy, arguably France’s leading public intellectual, about the covid-19 pandemic was the rise of “medical power.” In his short, enjoyable, and provocative book The […]
Beyond checklists: Seeing the patient in technicolour
When I swapped my purple Public Health consultant badge two years ago for an orange foundation year badge on the medical wards, I knew that there would be challenging weeks. […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—7 August 2020
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
The Coronavirus Act is a reminder of how mental and physical health legislation treats patients differently
The Coronavirus Act 2020, enacted in light of the covid-19 pandemic, is a timely reminder that Descartes’ philosophy of Cartesian Duality—a theory that the mind and body are conceptually distinct—has […]
Richard Smith: Medical schools move to teaching online consultation with patients
As for everybody and every organisation, the covid-19 pandemic has presented challenges, but also opportunities, to medical schools. One challenge is how the schools can ensure adequate and safe contact […]
A catalyst for change? How the experience of the pandemic will shape community provision in future
Keeping patients well outside of a hospital setting and getting them home as soon as possible once they are medically fit delivers benefits both to the individual and to the […]
Sahar Abdulrahman: Do Black Lives Matter in the NHS?
Without analysing Blackness specifically, we cannot understand or defeat the anti-blackness that exists in the NHS, says Sahar Abdulrahman […]
A call to action to improve access to healthcare and health outcomes in ethnic minority communities
The covid-19 pandemic has exposed the differential health outcomes for people from ethnic minorities who have been disproportionately affected by the virus. The Black Lives Matter campaign across the world […]