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Covid-19: What’s going wrong with testing in the UK?

Is it the increase in demand, “ineligible” applicants, or a lack of laboratory capacity hampering coronavirus testing? Jacqui Wise examines the key questions around the current lack of access to tests in the community

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BMJ opinionTest and trace in England—from dysfunction to farce

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Covid-19: New restrictions to curb rising infection rate are set throughout UK

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Operation Moonshot proposals are scientifically unsound

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Helen Salisbury: Plan your emergency

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Emerging immunotherapies in multiple myeloma

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Patient organisations failed to disclose £14m in drug company payments over four years, study finds

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Covid-19: Experts divide into two camps of action—shielding versus blanket policies

BMJ opinionAn open letter to the UK’s chief medical officers

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Covid-19: Act now to avoid second lockdown, says Independent SAGE

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Covid-19 in the workplace

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Safely returning clinically vulnerable people to work

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Studying medicine affected my mental health—here’s what I learnt

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Covid-19: Government must learn lessons from deaths before winter, say MPs and peers

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Growth concerns in the early weeks of life

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Bringing drug production home: how the US is rebuilding the drug supply chain after covid-19

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From ceramics to skin: how art led to a career in dermatology

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Covid-19: Point of care test reports 94% sensitivity and 100% specificity compared with laboratory test

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Assisted dying: doctors challenge RCGP’s “irrational” interpretation of poll

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Covid-19: Minorities account for 78% of US deaths in under 21s, says CDC

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Covid-19: Testing service wasn’t prepared for increased demand, chief admits

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Private patient care in NHS hospitals: an opportunity for improved governance

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Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and other leaders win Ig Nobel awards for teaching people about life and death

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Good perioperative care can cut post-surgery complications by up to 80%, review shows

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GP is restored to medical register after second attempt

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Let pharmacists make minor substitutions in event of drug shortages, say stakeholders

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BMJ opinionRising covid-19 transmission and a broken testing system have left us in a dangerous place

BMJ opinionTest and trace in England—from dysfunction to farce

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