Opinion

The NHS isn’t alone in its problems—but other countries can help with solutions

A government concerned with health disparities would not lift almost all covid-19 protections

London mayor plans to take more action to reduce air pollution

Implementing existing air pollution policies will improve health and save lives

Finding the learning in clinical admin

The Ukrainian refugee crisis and the pathology of racism

Making the law work for HIV responses

The rupture of anonymity for sperm donors—a tangled web of conflicting rights

Shifting tides: reflecting on medical education in the time of covid-19

To sustain maternal and newborn health in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, midwifery must be prioritised

When I use a word . . . . Listening to the patient

Men wage war, women and children pay the price

What needs to be done to make the NHS fit for the future?

We can live with covid, but that doesn’t have to mean living with avoidable deaths and disability

Tom Nolan’s research reviews—10 March 2022

We cannot afford to repeat these four pandemic mistakes

Review of gender identity services for children and young people

It’s time to stop infant formula marketing practices that endanger our children

Stronger efforts are needed to safeguard the nutrition of school aged children

Medicine's gender pay gap is still a glaring manifestation of pervasive inequality

Should Western science institutions and scientists boycott their Russian equivalents?

Ukraine invasion: Why I fear for Ukraine’s healthcare workers

Why has mental health been forgotten in the government’s recovery plans?

When I use a word . . . . Medical trigger warnings

Obesity action: Time to move from fragmentation and failure to solidarity and success

What can we learn from the language of “living with covid”?

We need to reject the UK government’s bespoke approach to refugees

Tom Nolan’s research reviews—3 March 2022

Pregnancy and the “presumption of inclusion” in research

Cracking delayed discharges will need local innovation and bold national action

When I use a word . . . . Bioscience journals—an open and shut case?

Government’s plan for “living with covid-19” neglects the most vulnerable

Eating disorders in men: limited models of diagnosis and treatment are failing patients

Russian doctors, nurses, and paramedics demand an end to hostilities in Ukraine

Sensible regulation and clinical implementation of clinical decision support software as a medical device

When is the best time to teach medical ethics?

As Russian troops cross into Ukraine, we need to remind ourselves of the impact of war on health

Improving acupuncture research: progress, guidance, and future directions

The UK’s covid-19 data collection has been “world beating”—let’s not throw it away

Lessons in quality improvement

Ann Robinson’s research reviews—24 February 2022

Self-testing for asymptomatic non-contacts using rapid antigen tests—is this leading to a cost effective reduction in infection transmission?

It’s time to trust NHS staff to do the right thing

Ensuring patient confidentiality in the virtual world

Covid-19: Ending the legal requirement to self isolate puts vulnerable people at risk

Thanking patients for their role in research is part of creating wider cultural change

Removing free access to covid-19 tests is incomprehensible

Social justice: what’s in it for gender equality and health?

When I use a word . . . . Medical patronymics, metronymics, and papponymics

Invest in primary healthcare and public health for the pandemic and beyond

Now is the time for radical action on racial health inequalities

Ann Robinson’s research reviews—17 February 2022

Food aid charities fear the worst as the cost of living crisis takes hold

Mental health in people with covid-19

Upcoming disability summit must be a turning point

The European Union needs a policy and strategy to secure access to healthcare for undocumented migrants

Tigray: the challenges of providing care in unimaginable conditions

Covid-19: For the clinically extremely vulnerable, life hasn’t returned to normal

The gift of death

Can children play a role in reducing families’ salt intake?

When I use a word . . . . St Bartholomew—onomastics and reputation

Covid-19 in India: Oxygen shortages and a real world trolley problem

Digital health must be better integrated into medical education

Tom Nolan’s research reviews—10 February 2022

A prescription for nursing: five measures to remedy the ills of the profession

The government’s levelling up plan: a missed opportunity

The UK is an international outlier in its approach to covid in children

Putting equity at the heart of the US government’s rollout of covid tests and masks

A national vaccination service for the NHS in England: a proposal to be considered with caution

Six million patients wait as politicians argue over the elective recovery plan

Medicine’s stigma of mental illness made me hang up my stethoscope

Has covid-19 precipitated the end of the family doctor?

When I use a word . . . . Vaccination—rights and duties

Can medical product development be better aligned with global needs?

A lack of climate finance is harming population health

Resilient and equitable recovery from the covid-19 pandemic

Embedding net zero in health and care for the good of our health and our health service

Public health: invisible in plain sight

Tom Nolan’s research reviews—3 February 2022

Data must underpin our response to the covid-19 pandemic’s disastrous impact on cancer

The primary care backlog is a ticking time bomb

Instead of gimmicks, the NHS needs a workforce plan

It is so difficult to see your GP because family doctors are now nearly extinct

Belfast—a personal journey

The origins, development, and context of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death

Fair access to scarce medical capacity for non-covid-19 patients: a role for reserves

Gray report: “Failures of leadership and judgement”

Using condition specific patient reported outcome measures for long covid

Protecting older adults’ mental health in the pandemic

When I use a word . . . . Medical words newly logged in the OED in September 2021

Vitamin D and fish oil supplements and risk of autoimmune disease

Militia-led attacks on health facilities and workers in Sudan

Ann Robinson’s research reviews—27 January 2022

On the verge of Poland’s fifth wave of covid-19, healthcare staff are overworked and disenchanted

Sexual assault and harassment in medicine: we need actions not words

Racism as a leading cause of death in the United States

Improving the medical curriculum on planetary health and sustainable healthcare

Why mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers should not be scrapped

Working in healthcare right now means being asked to do the impossible—then being abandoned to our inevitable failure

Parties may lead to his downfall, but is this the worst of what Johnson has done?