The recent exposure of Dominic Cummings’ behaviour has quite rightly caused grave concerns about its effect on our trust in government, and our compliance with public health messages. The truth […]
The government has unveiled a covid-19 test and trace strategy for England, but it wasted valuable time in recognising what needed to be done after the lockdown was imposed and […]
Once squandered, trust is extremely difficult to recover […]
The illegal drug market has proven to be resilient and adaptable during this crisis, says Ian Hamilton […]
There is a pressing need for public health education for older people who are able to cut down or stop drinking safely, argues Tony Rao […]
Readers of The BMJ may be familiar with the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It’s almost an Inverse Competence Law, which proposes a cognitive bias in which people who are not good at […]
The SARS-Cov-2 pandemic has produced challenges for mental health services, but it also provides opportunities to reassess and improve our mental health care system. When National Health Service England (NHSE) […]
Covid-19 has forced the profession to rewrite the rules on career progression but any changes must be evidence based, say Hannah James and Giles Pattison […]
2020 is Florence Nightingale’s bicentennial year, designated by World Health Organisation (WHO) as the first ever global Year of the Nurse and Midwife. Announced early last year, WHO can have had little idea how […]
Doctors are dying. The combination of a novel virus, no treatment, and inadequate supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) is putting frontline health workers at risk of serious harm. The […]
