Letters

Partnership or salaried GP: what about the engaged GP?

The NHS is being bullied

Empowering Islamic leaders to help patients practise a safe Ramadan

We need to move care away from hospitals

Subsuming general practice into acute NHS services is a red herring

We need to optimise genome surveillance and tracing of SARS-CoV-2 variants

Conversations about financial hardship should not be off limits

Diagnostic reasoning: a single entity diagnosis is often inadequate

Diagnostic reasoning: maximise trainees’ clinical experience

Let’s develop multiple layers of primary care

Ketamine for suicidal ideation: heed lessons from opiate epidemic

Moving from self-responsibility to blaming clinicians

How many GPs do we need? The answer is not a number

How many GPs do we need? Look at average list sizes

Time to retract Lancet paper on tissue engineered trachea transplants

A family doctor has a holistic approach

GP numbers and the future of primary care

Music as a person centred intervention for dementia

Local regulatory systems hinder prescription of medical cannabis

Doctors’ support of medical cannabis: an evidential rather than moral imperative

Improving unfair inspections of minority led GP practices

Underplaying the dangers of cannabis for women of childbearing age is sexist and pregnancy discrimination

Clinicians and researchers must advocate for evidence based drug policy

It is time to expand community alternatives to immigration detention

Covid-19 vaccines: individual patient data should be submitted to the European Medicines Agency

Covid-19 vaccines: we need immediate release of anonymised data from yellow card scheme

Fact checkers should declare conflicts of interest

When fact checking cuts both ways

Health, poverty, and stigma: resources for healthcare professionals

Continuous positive airway pressure as potential treatment of atrial fibrillation

The workforce crisis: don’t leave overseas doctors in limbo

NHS workforce crisis: we need formal and informal techniques to deal with high demand

Calls from the NHS should not have the number withheld

After the pandemic—something is going to crack

WHO covid-19 drugs guideline: reconsider using convalescent plasma

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: following Australia’s example

How can we help asylum seekers get better healthcare?

Healthcare for asylum seekers: advocating for people in Immigration Removal Centres

Healthcare for asylum seekers: recognise suffering and improve responses

Whistleblowers: the NHS is still shooting the messenger

Women with overactive bladder should be referred to urogynaecology

Consultant repository would not have identified Paterson as a rogue clinician

Slang use in the ICU: we are women, not girls

Authors’ reply to Chiolero, Bannon, and Dickinson

Covid-19: The polio epidemic is a better analogy

Falls prevention programmes succeed only by supporting staff long term

Maintaining and promoting health in care homes

Financial incentives for health should be standard practice

Previous pandemics: advocating a return to the good old days?

Data do not speak by themselves but will help end the pandemic

“Wrongful conception”: the case for no-fault compensation

“Wrongful conception” case: another black mark against general practice

Quantifying transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 in different situations

The medicalisation of childhood constipation

Is it a doctor’s job to balance the healthcare needs of the population against those of individual patients?

Routine tests are key for preventive medicine

Beneficial effects of heavy metal music on wellbeing

Some participants depend on clinical trials

Retaining trial participants: an individualised approach is needed

Speaking truth to power is emotionally demanding

Open the windows? It’s not that easy

Refugee doctors—from medical support worker to a fulfilling NHS career

Use of augmented reality in surgical simulation training during covid-19

Valneva could appeal to the vaccine hesitant and may be more effective for longer

Simplifying medications for people with type 2 diabetes

Racism in the NHS is subtle, insidious, and pervasive

Isotonitazene: a new synthetic opioid in the UK

Role of energy in preventing heat related illness

Convergence of zero carbon healthcare with patient blood management

Effectiveness of public health measures against covid-19: ventilation has a major role

Condemning consensus is not helpful

Low risk presentations have increased in ambulatory care units with increased e-consultations

E-consultations increasing GP workload: the problem is capacity, not access

First the words, now the actions: a proactive approach to tackling sexism in medical school

Opioid treatment for non-cancer pain: we need a comprehensive approach

Mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers: consequences of denying bodily autonomy

Mandatory covid-19 vaccination for healthcare workers: all employers are bound by health and safety laws to reduce risk

Turning up the heat on the NHS: it’s not fair only to blame the government

Graded exercise therapy for ME/CFS: finding consensus between the royal colleges, patients, and researchers

Mandatory covid-19 vaccination for healthcare workers: vaccinated and unvaccinated people seem as likely to infect others

International in-person medical meetings have had their day but we need conference playbooks

The NHS: time to change and rebuild with 21st century tools

NHS covid passes should be available for children

Shared wards are not appropriate for 21st century medicine

Shared bays in hospitals provide companionship

What is general practice’s place in the new world?

“Coping” with menstruation while working shifts

Could it be covid? Update information to stop public confusion

Drug companies need better oversight but have also provided excellent protection

Strengthening routine polio vaccination in Afghanistan

Calls for equity must be specific to be meaningful

We abandon face-to-face practice at our peril

GP committee’s move towards industrial action will stoke animosity in the press and from the public

Why I don’t support GPs taking industrial action

How significant is the Ventavia scandal?

Some ways to tackle overprescribing

Supporting NHS staff facing abuse from patients frustrated by long waits for care

Civil disobedience is a last resort

Aiming for economic recovery from covid-19 and better climate resilience is a win-win

Coordinated eco-leadership can unite clinicians towards net zero