Letters
The time to act is now
Waiting in healthcare: the time to act might be later
BMJ 2021; 372 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n429 (Published 12 February 2021) Cite this as: BMJ 2021;372:n429
- Lisa Baraitser, professor of psychosocial theory1,
- Jocelyn Catty, senior research fellow, Waiting Times2,
- Laura Salisbury, professor of modern literature and medical humanities3,
- Kelechi Anucha, doctoral candidate3,
- Stephanie Davies, doctoral candidate1,
- Michael J Flexer, publicly engaged research fellow3,
- Martin D Moore, lecturer, Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health3,
- Jordan Osserman, research fellow1
- 1Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7HX, UK
- 2Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London NW3 5BA, UK
- 3University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- jcatty{at}tavi-port.nhs.uk
As an interdisciplinary research group exploring time and waiting in healthcare, we were interested to read the recent pseudo-systematic review by Ford and colleagues,1 which investigated studies claiming: “The time to act is now.”
This humorous piece has some interesting serious resonances with our own project, Waiting Times (Wellcome Trust 205400/A/16/Z), which explores what it means to wait within healthcare beyond perennial and understandable concerns with waiting lists. We examine …