Views & Reviews

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

David Oliver: Why shouldn’t GPs use social media to rebalance the debate on covid-era consultations?

Helen Salisbury: Should I stay or should I go?

Clare Gerada: My father and the GMC

Building a sustainable infrastructure for covid-19 vaccinations long term

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?

Helen Salisbury: Should GPs break the law on data privacy?

David Oliver: The story of covid in care homes—neither mystery nor melodrama

The curse of the priors when interpreting scans

Partha Kar: Imposter syndrome is no cause for shame

The UK’s coronavirus policy still places too much responsibility—and blame—on the public

David Oliver: A public covid-19 inquiry tomorrow shouldn’t stop action today

Helen Salisbury: Mind the training gap

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

What went wrong in the UK’s covid-19 response?

David Oliver: Squaring the circle on ward visiting

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

Helen Salisbury: GPs deserve better than this micromanagement

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

David Oliver: Consulting on uniform while ignoring PPE failings insults NHS staff

Using the NHS App as a covid-19 vaccine passport

Helen Salisbury: General practice on the brink

Matt Morgan: Covid helped me travel, with colleagues as guides

David Oliver: A vision for transparent post-covid government

Helen Salisbury: Routes to recovery

David Oliver: Valuing the medical take

Partha Kar: “Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani”—the anguish of the Indian diaspora

Clare Gerada: A problem shared

Helen Salisbury: Let’s talk about sustainability

Why journals should stop publishing transplantation research from China

Helen Salisbury: Does it matter who owns general practice?

Partha Kar: Changing the narrative around self-management

David Oliver: Renaming government agencies won’t improve population health

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

David Oliver: What price the Nolan principles for public office holders?

Rammya Mathew: Women in leadership—not just an unattainable ideal

Helen Salisbury: Will additional roles save general practice?

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?