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The effect of exercise on suicide in people with depression

March 12, 2024

Promoting swimming: a positive approach to public health

March 12, 2024

Dental recovery plan offers bonuses to “dental deserts”

March 8, 2024

Understanding the history of vaccine hesitancy and current mistrust in healthcare

March 7, 2024

What are you going to do to challenge ableism?

March 7, 2024

There can be benefits to discussing healthcare on social media

March 6, 2024

Decline in child health in the UK is a national scandal

March 5, 2024

The NHS doesn’t need reimagining: we just need to stop burning money

March 5, 2024

BMJ commission on the NHS: don’t forget the workforce and young people

March 5, 2024

Increasing measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine uptake in primary care

March 5, 2024

What we did not learn at the covid inquiry in Scotland: a gap analysis

March 4, 2024

UK workers during the pandemic: inadequate protection and, consequently, increased risk

March 1, 2024

Teledentistry may help in detecting oral cancers in current GP and dentist shortages

March 1, 2024

The NHS founding principles: we have known for a long time that ill health is linked to external causes

February 29, 2024

NICE’s clarification of its approach to perspective in response to letter by Brendbekken and Bhopal

February 29, 2024

Tackling contraceptive misinformation on social media

February 29, 2024

We need to engage people before they become patients

February 28, 2024

The BBC should not normalise practices that harm babies

February 27, 2024

New isotretinoin legislation is based on misinformation

February 26, 2024

We still don’t know whether inclisiran protects patients

February 22, 2024

Doctors have too much mandatory training: who will take the lead on reducing its curriculum?

February 20, 2024

Compassionate care: dream or reality?

February 20, 2024

Curiosity and compassionate care: rehumanising the admission clerking

February 20, 2024

NHS productivity: reduction in emergency admissions does not mean decline in performance

February 20, 2024

Current consultant pay scales are ageist and sexist and require reform

February 14, 2024

Listen to the voices of the next generation of doctors

February 14, 2024

Acknowledging risks and benefits of instant messaging platforms in clinical settings

February 13, 2024

WhatsApp is not even a very good clinical communication tool

February 13, 2024

Clinical communication alternatives to WhatsApp have been proved in practice

February 13, 2024

Labour’s child health action plan: a multifaceted positive health approach is needed

February 13, 2024

WhatsApp in clinical settings: it’s time to explore bespoke technologies within secure intranets

February 12, 2024

WhatsApp is a sticking plaster for poor systems of care coordination

February 12, 2024

GP redundancies: sending the wrong message

February 12, 2024

Junior doctors’ strike: what’s reasonable and what’s not?

February 12, 2024

Action on mouth cancer: restoring access to NHS dentistry

February 12, 2024

Women’s healthcare must be trauma informed to remove access barriers

February 12, 2024

Opioid dispensations: safer supply or diverted supply?

February 9, 2024

NHS charities help with more than just the trimmings

February 7, 2024

Regulation of the illicit drugs industry will save lives and reduce misery

February 7, 2024

Only radical reform will save general practice: we need to rethink GP partnerships

February 6, 2024

GPs’ working schedules: 10 minute madness

February 6, 2024

It is time to take deaths from opioids seriously

February 6, 2024

Nature prescribing: we must make our cities as green as possible

February 6, 2024

Reversing the rate of antidepressant prescribing: a view from Poland

February 2, 2024

Ways to enhance nature prescribing

February 2, 2024

Fungi: not to be overlooked in future research on pathogens in coffee machines

February 1, 2024

What shall guide us in the phasing out of fossil fuels?

February 1, 2024

Medicine is equally blind to diversity of skin colour as to body diversity

January 31, 2024

Junior doctors feel like the lowest priority members of the team

January 31, 2024

Tribulations and trials: redactions of clinical trial protocols

January 31, 2024

Physician associates and apprentices can’t replace doctors

January 30, 2024

Overqualified and underused: retention, not reformation, is needed

January 30, 2024

Putting Kaftrio into perspective: a test case for fair and open priority setting

January 29, 2024

Curb antidepressant use: perimenopausal women may benefit from HRT

January 29, 2024

ADHD: how can the NHS deliver better provision?

January 29, 2024

Consultants pay deal is unfair and should be rejected

January 26, 2024

“Golden shackles” of the consultant new pay deal

January 26, 2024

Duty of kindness and GMC’s unawareness of socially patterned speech

January 26, 2024

Antidepressants aren’t the answer: societal change is needed

January 26, 2024

Reverse austerity to curb antidepressant prescribing, reduce carbon emissions, improve mental health, and save lives

January 26, 2024

Pay deal favours consultants with longer service

January 26, 2024

Patients with the greatest need have least continuity of care

January 25, 2024

Give GPs their old jobs back

January 23, 2024

Continuity of care in general practice: avoid the blunt sledgehammers of national policy

January 18, 2024

Systems thinking to improve healthcare

January 18, 2024

Good continuity of care requires slack in the system

January 17, 2024

NHS inefficiencies are demoralising and a misuse of junior doctors’ time

January 16, 2024

Continuity of care in general practice: the Norwegian experience

January 16, 2024

Our Future Health is investigating inaccurate cholesterol readings

January 16, 2024

A move to personal lists in general practice will provide continuity of care for patients

January 16, 2024

Semaglutide reduces the absolute risk of major cardiovascular events by 1.5%

January 15, 2024

Fatigue should be managed as a safety risk

January 15, 2024

Have the lost tribe of SHOs found themselves?

January 12, 2024

Call for flexibility should lead to review of postgraduate training pathways

January 12, 2024

Ophthalmological side effects of proton pump inhibitors

January 10, 2024

NHS eligibility criteria for shingles vaccination is ageist

January 10, 2024

Author’s reply to Sundar

January 9, 2024

NICE decisions must reflect societal values in relevant and contemporary policies

January 9, 2024

Should the NHS pay AI’s PubMed bill?

January 9, 2024

NICE cannot always allow healthcare professionals to prescribe the best available treatment

January 8, 2024

NICE guidance: opportunity cost of clinician time needs to be quantified

January 8, 2024

The NHS should focus on doing the basics first

January 3, 2024

The use of wastewater based epidemiology to detect synthetic opioids in the community

January 3, 2024

Illegal drugs in the UK—we need better screening and surveillance

January 2, 2024

Illicit drug threats, old and new

January 2, 2024

Authors’ reply to Datta

December 28, 2023

Understanding injuries during assisted delivery

December 28, 2023

Problems in diagnosing UTIs: taking a clean sample

December 15, 2023

Life support training for medical trainees is essential

December 6, 2023

Politicians, experts, and patient representatives call for the UK government to reverse the rate of antidepressant prescribing

December 5, 2023

Authors’ reply to Laurent

December 4, 2023

Use of denosumab in castration sensitive prostate cancer

December 4, 2023

Royal college’s advocacy of international medical graduates

December 4, 2023

Climate crisis: what do we do if they ignore us?

November 29, 2023

Online searching of patients is a complement, not a workaround

November 27, 2023

Fellowships and international medical graduates: the need for a reappraisal

November 24, 2023

Example of a good fellowship scheme worthy of imitation by more trusts

November 24, 2023

Rethink medical training to cut carbon emissions

November 23, 2023

Children are especially vulnerable to air pollution: we need data on transport emissions near schools

November 21, 2023

Time to de-implement urine dipsticks in older adults

November 20, 2023
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