Views & Reviews

Helen Salisbury: Valuing our reception teams

Partha Kar: To improve clinical leadership we need a dose of realism

David Oliver: Medicine should be a stronger ally to other health professions

Helen Salisbury: The wrong prescription for primary care

Rammya Mathew: Emotional toll of being a junior doctor

David Oliver: Why do doctors sometimes fail in influencing medical policy?

Helen Salisbury: Expressing empathy

David Oliver: Has covid killed the medical conference?

Matt Morgan: No news, for patients, is bad news

Helen Salisbury: The complexity and joy of general practice

David Oliver: How much influence can doctors have over health policy?

Helen Salisbury: Why numbers matter

David Oliver: Central diktats won’t help more patients leave local hospitals

Partha Kar: We need leaders who represent the NHS workforce

Helen Salisbury: Levelling up—or punching down?

David Oliver: Making GPs hospital employees won’t solve pressure on hospitals or general practice

Rammya Mathew: The difference between a doctor and a family doctor

Helen Salisbury: Sajid Javid’s plan for a salaried GP service

David Oliver: Needs, wants, and demands for care

Helen Salisbury: Prolonging omicron

Matt Morgan: The trouble with “just asking questions”

David Oliver: The social care white paper provides few solutions to an urgent crisis

Helen Salisbury: Health, poverty, and stigma

David Oliver: Solutions for the workforce crisis exist, so let’s act now

Helen Salisbury: Covid-19 and the consequences of letting it rip

Partha Kar: Let’s plan ahead to support our GPs

David Oliver: Act on workforce gaps, or the NHS will never recover

Matt Morgan: Your 1800 weeks of work

Helen Salisbury: New Year’s revolutions?

David Oliver: Zealotry risks making faster hospital discharge a cult

Rammya Mathew: The true cost of unnecessary investigations

Helen Salisbury: Will GPs boost the booster rollout?

David Oliver: Lessons for NHS staff from the Grenfell inquiry

Helen Salisbury: Omicron—panic mongering or appropriate caution?

David Oliver: Dismissing unwell people to argue for pandemic freedoms is abhorrent and unrealistic

Helen Salisbury: E-consultations are increasing the GP workload

Partha Kar: Holding up a mirror to racism in the NHS

David Oliver: UK trained doctors, “part time” working, and ongoing commitment to the NHS

Matt Morgan: Sitting on the bin

Helen Salisbury: To level up, we need to top up GPs

David Oliver: The cultural problems still affecting PPE provision

Helen Salisbury: What do GPs do all day?

David Oliver: Should single rooms be the default for NHS inpatients?

Helen Salisbury: Could it be covid?

Rammya Mathew: Making general practice a sustainable career again

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: Daily Mail,’s campaign on general practice won’t help GPs or their patients

Helen Salisbury: Sajid Javid’s missed opportunity

Matt Morgan: How watching Friends, may prevent your next complaint

David Oliver: When doctors are accused of faking covid experiences

Clare Gerada: Leadership has no magic formula

Helen Salisbury: Continuity saves lives

David Oliver: Outpatient clinics’ role in sustainability

Helen Salisbury: The time is now

Rammya Mathew: Climate action will require radical reform of how we practise medicine

David Oliver: How hospital doctors’ own pressures affect GPs

Partha Kar: If you believe you can change it, prove it

Helen Salisbury: Official hesitancy is not helping

Consent for covid-19 vaccination in children

Has the UK government given up the fight to protect and promote health?

David Oliver: Social care plan furthers inequality and unfairness

Matt Morgan: Bursting FOAM’s bubble

Helen Salisbury: Has your weight changed recently?

Clare Gerada: From clap to slap—general practice in crisis

Helen Salisbury: Trouble with the new normal

Media attacks on GPs threaten the doctor-patient relationship

David Oliver: What the plan for social care omitted

It’s more vital than ever that we have data to support the debate on assisted dying

David Oliver: When organisations’ behaviours betray their value statements

Rammya Mathew: Building compassionate and joyful workplaces

Helen Salisbury: Blood bottles, vaccines, and freight

David Oliver: Soundbites won’t solve a pandemic

Partha Kar: Jealousy, rivalry, and disdain—the toxicity of specialty stereotyping

Helen Salisbury: Looking after each other

David Oliver: Were Nightingale units and fever hospitals ever workable responses to covid-19?

Helen Salisbury: Lifelong lessons in learning

Matt Morgan: Caring for unvaccinated patients

The ripples of trauma caused by severe pain during IUD procedures

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

David Oliver: Could separating NHS “hot” and “cold” inpatient sites work?

Matt Morgan: Medicine, the never ending video game

Helen Salisbury: Will the latest NHS reorganisation help patients?

The dangers of allowing exponential growth

David Oliver: Hospital bed numbers were inadequate before the pandemic and will continue to be so

Rammya Mathew: It’s not about the money, money, money

Helen Salisbury: How’s your appetite for risk?

Political appointees in the NHS: be careful what you wish for

David Oliver: What has the pandemic taught us about using frailty scales?

Helen Salisbury: No room for growth at general practices

Partha Kar: Let’s avoid the trap of division

Health and wealth in pandemic times: not a zero sum game

David Oliver: Has the term “front line” had its day?

Helen Salisbury: Is presumed consent enough for sharing medical data?

Matt Morgan: Whose leg is it anyway? Ownership and medicine

The government must support communities across the UK to tackle covid-19 long term

Patient commentary: How power imbalances in the narratives, research, and publications around long covid can harm patients