Our economy, said John Maynard Keynes in 1933, “is not a success. It is not intelligent, it is not beautiful, it is not just, it is not virtuous—and it doesn’t […]
Releasing the results of the Recovery trial quickly, may have saved lives. But without the data available yet, the results cannot be scrutinised. Matt Morgan considers this complex decision […]
Instead of over promising and under delivering, ministers must be open to learning from elsewhere […]
Correction added 24 June 2020: The original hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin preprint paper mentioned in this article can still be viewed at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.05.20088757v1?versioned=true Some articles get retracted. Some get withdrawn. […]
One of the key issues for healthcare systems around the world during the covid-19 pandemic has been the lack of sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE) available for healthcare workers. We […]
On 30 May 2020, NHS England and the NHS Confederation launched the NHS Race and Health Observatory, a new centre to investigate the impact of race and ethnicity on people’s […]
As the government look set to make an announcement on shielding, Ceinwen Giles discusses the impact that shielding is having on patients and their families […]
I want to cry. But I hear his voice. “Cut it out. Get to the point”. He was a legend and true Mensch. In 2011, Michael woke up in hospital […]
Much of the rhetoric on the coronavirus pandemic has drawn on battlefield metaphors. Perhaps the notion that truth is the first casualty of war also applies to our government’s response […]
The frequent presence of silver canisters, or “whippits,” on our streets (even during the covid-19 lockdown) is a visible mark of the increasing incidence of nitrous oxide (N2O) or laughing […]
