Views & reviews

David Oliver: Is NHS “inefficiency” a public myth?

Matt Morgan: The NHS needs a midlife crisis

Helen Salisbury: Why we still need to test for covid-19

David Oliver: What parliament omitted from its “lessons learnt” on coronavirus

Partha Kar: Making sense of the health multiverse

Helen Salisbury: When do we switch to plan B?

David Oliver: Soundbites won’t solve a pandemic

David Oliver: Is more statutory power for the health secretary to intervene in the NHS wise?

Helen Salisbury: Running on empty

Clare Gerada: Happy birthday, NHS

The dangers of allowing exponential growth

Partha Kar: Let’s avoid the trap of division

David Oliver: Deaths from hospital acquired covid are everyone’s problem

Rammya Mathew: Should GPs be more like hospital specialists?

Helen Salisbury: When did you last see your doctor?

A new deal for surgery: but what does it really mean?

Matt Morgan: “Less grit, more quit” has its benefits

David Oliver: The pandemic has delivered clinical service innovations worth keeping

Helen Salisbury: Should patients worry about their data?

Clare Gerada: Closing the gender wellbeing gap in medicine

Rammya Mathew: Digital access has opened the floodgates to patient demand

The covid-19 vaccine patent waiver: a crucial step towards a “people’s vaccine”

Using the NHS App as a covid-19 vaccine passport

David Oliver: A vision for transparent post-covid government

Helen Salisbury: Routes to recovery

David Oliver: Valuing the medical take

Why journals should stop publishing transplantation research from China

There is a real danger that covid-19 will become entrenched as a disease of poverty

Structural racism is a fundamental cause and driver of ethnic disparities in health

David Oliver: When visitors return to the wards

Helen Salisbury: Triage is for disasters, not everyday general practice

Matt Morgan: A pandemic in 15 minutes

What has been the effect of covid-19 on suicide rates?

David Oliver: Improving DNACPR discussions, decisions, and documentation

Helen Salisbury: Hanging on the telephone

Clare Gerada: Tackling intersectionality must be our post-covid legacy

The medical establishment is failing the UK public on covid-19

David Oliver: The IEA has used covid-19 as another opportunity to brief against the NHS

Partha Kar: NHS progress on diversity will need regulation and fines

Helen Salisbury: Protocols and plastic aprons

Children and the return to school: how much should we worry about covid-19 and long covid?

David Oliver: The case for transitional post-acute care

Helen Salisbury: Dealing with covid trauma and grief

Rammya Mathew: Workforce must be at the centre of covid-19 recovery plans

The UK’s PPE procurement scandal reminds us why we need ways to hold ministers to account

David Oliver: Has covid-19 shown society’s disregard for old and sick people?

Matt Morgan: Head, shoulders, knees, and toes—what’s next on the NHS waiting list?

Helen Salisbury: Stepping back from vaccination priorities and focusing on minimising the risk of exposure

“We are setting ourselves on fire to keep everyone else warm”—what does the recovery look like for NHS staff?

David Oliver: We can support primary care without blaming hospital doctors

Clare Gerada: Loss has become a daily experience in the covid-19 pandemic

Helen Salisbury: Debts of gratitude

What makes new variants of SARS-CoV-2 concerning is not where they come from, but the mutations they contain

David Oliver: Lack of PPE betrays NHS clinical staff

Partha Kar: Losing one’s faith in leaders

Helen Salisbury: How are you, doctor?

David Oliver: Mistruths and misunderstandings about covid-19 death numbers

Helen Salisbury: Everyone wants to feel useful

Rammya Mathew: Is home working bad for our health?

Outdated career ideals stifle medical women and hurt us all

David Oliver: Wider health determinants aren’t just for pandemics

Matt Morgan: I’m a celebrity, get me remdesivir!

Helen Salisbury: Trust me, I’m the family doctor

The UK’s poor record on covid-19 is a failure of policy learning

David Oliver: Covid shows the need for transparency in prioritising acute care

Helen Salisbury: Pedalling vaccines door to door

Clare Gerada: Tips for surviving leadership

David Oliver: Should we allow filming in covid filled hospitals?

Partha Kar: The end of the tunnel, and the bumps on the way

Helen Salisbury: Keeping vaccinations local

Pandemic fatigue? How adherence to covid-19 regulations has been misrepresented and why it matters

David Oliver: Could we do better on hospital acquired covid-19 in a future wave?

Helen Salisbury: Respectful disagreement

Rammya Mathew: We should use this moment of crisis to make significant gains in vaccine uptake

David Oliver: The false dichotomies in pandemic commentary

Why were breastfeeding women in the UK denied the covid-19 vaccine?

Matt Morgan: The hospital bed is broken

Helen Salisbury: Don’t squander patients’ trust in the vaccine rollout

Helen Salisbury: Bumps in the road to covid vaccine rollout

Should her name begin with “Doctor”?

David Oliver: Another false dawn for adult social care?

Helen Salisbury: Being a good enough doctor

Clare Gerada: Zoomed out

Should medical training be something we “survive”?

David Oliver: Getting defensive over patient experience in the pandemic

Helen Salisbury: Poverty as a pre-existing condition

Covid-19 could prompt an end to our continued betrayal of childhood

Partha Kar: Delivering covid vaccine—a team effort

David Oliver: Should we bring the curtain down on NHS social media performances?

Helen Salisbury: Careless communication costs lives

Matt Morgan: The two pandemics—covid and lies

Can covid-19 help us deal with the pandemic of defensive medicine?

Screening the healthy population for covid-19 is of unknown value, but is being introduced nationwide

David Oliver: The roads not taken in our covid response

Helen Salisbury: Managing vaccine expectations

Rammya Mathew: Reshaping healthcare for vulnerable people

David Oliver: Heed HSIB on covid transmission in hospital

Helen Salisbury: Pandemic stress

Partha Kar: Learning to live with failure

Pooled testing for SARS-CoV-2 could provide the solution to UK’s testing strategy