Integrating implementation science into covid-19 response and recovery
National and subnational responses to the covid-19 pandemic have varied in their implementation of critical…
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Covid-19: The support UK care homes need to survive
On 16 March Donna Pierpoint locked down the nursing home she runs in Sheffield, in…
Covid-19: Exposing frontline NHS staff to dangers by asking them to reuse PPE
Abbasi has aptly pointed out a few scandals around the pandemic we are facing.1 In…
Covid-19 in Pakistan and potential repercussions for the world: is the infection on the verge of endemicity?
Kickbusch and colleagues have rightly indicated that South Asian countries are important in shaping global…
Covid-19: International staff are considered vital to NHS’s efforts, survey finds
The public would support a new deal for international NHS and social care staff, a…
Covid-19: “Staggering number” of extra deaths in community is not explained by covid-19
Only a third of the excess deaths seen in the community in England and Wales…
Covid-19: Concerns rise as cases expand rapidly in South America
Scientists have warned that countries in South America should expect a rise in cases and…
Cassandra’s curse and covid-19: why do governments listen to businesses over doctors?
Pollock and colleagues recently commented on governments that ignored the World Health Organization’s advice on…
Covid-19: Return of Monday morning rush hour
bmj;369/may13_6/m1920/FAF1faFrank Augstein/AP/ShutterstockThe morning after Boris Johnson announced the easing of covid-19 lockdown restrictions in England,…
Covid-19: The US state copying a global health template for contact tracing success
When the governor of Massachusetts announced the state’s ambitious covid-19 contract tracing programme at a…
Covid-19: Hancock is urged to make testing strategy clearer
The UK Statistics Authority has urged the government to make its data on the national…
Covid-19 contact tracing: a briefing
What is contact tracing?By finding out who has had close contact with an infected person,…
David Oliver: Covid-19 highlights the need for effective government communications
I’m writing this nine weeks after the UK’s first reported death from coronavirus. For me,…
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Progression to type 2 diabetes in women with a known history of gestational diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis
AbstractObjectiveTo estimate and compare progression rates to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in women with…
Rammya Mathew: Innovation during the pandemic
Like many others, in recent weeks I’ve stepped into various clinical roles to support the…
Waste in covid-19 research
The medical research world is responding to the covid-19 pandemic at breathtaking speed. There has…
Covid-19: Pandemic exposes inequalities in global food systems
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the vulnerability and weaknesses of already fragile global food systems,…
GP who was suspended for forging out-of-hours form can resume work to assist in pandemic
A GP who was suspended for forging his supervisor’s signature when he was a trainee…
Covid-19: Government must change course or risk further wave of infections, scientists warn
The UK government must alter its current strategy for tackling covid-19 or face a further…
Removing the handle of the Broad Street pump: measures to slow the spread of covid-19 in primary care teams
John Snow removed the handle of the Broad Street pump to halt a cholera epidemic….
Supporting GPs to tackle domestic violence: five minutes with . . . Alex Sohal
“This programme is called IRIS, which stands for identification and referral to improve safety of…
Helen Salisbury: GPs still have no access to coronavirus testing
Once upon a time (two months ago), if I saw a patient with a notifiable…
Covid-19: What is the R number?
It’s been driving policy decisions since covid-19 emerged in late 2019, but what is the…
Covid-19 and decarceration
The US currently carries the ignoble distinction of being the world leader in both incarceration…
Ethics of reallocating ventilators in the covid-19 pandemic
The moral fortitude of clinicians and health systems has been tested as the number of…
Interpreting a covid-19 test result
What you need to knowInterpreting the result of a test for covid-19 depends on two…
Sixty seconds on . . . stay alert
Stay alert for what?Covid-19, of course. In a curious move, Boris Johnson’s UK government has…
Covid-19: Low skilled men have highest death rate of working age adults
Men working in the lowest skilled jobs had the highest rate of death involving covid-19…
How can I break bad news remotely?
Prepare as if you were meeting in personRachel Heard, specialty trainee year 5 in general…
Covid-19: Doctors make bid for public inquiry into lack of PPE for frontline workers
The Doctors Association UK and the Good Law Project have launched legal action to try…
How GPs can contribute to the challenge of covid-19
Before Greenhalgh and colleagues’ excellent article on assessing patients remotely for covid-19 was published,1 my…
Covid-19: Hong Kong government supplies reusable face masks to all residents
The Hong Kong government has begun to distribute reusable face masks to all residents, as…
Covid-19: Concern about social care’s ability to cope with pandemics was raised two years ago
Mounting criticism of UK ministers’ failure to prevent the spread of covid-19 through care homes…
Exit strategy to control covid-19 and relaunch the economy
In a fast expanding epidemic, after the surge is contained by physical distancing, the public…
Covid-19: England plan to ease lockdown is “confusing” and “risky,” say doctors
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s roadmap outlining how England will take its first steps out of…
Boy is set to receive millions in damages after NHS missed deliberate injuries
A 7 year old boy is set to win millions of pounds in damages from…
Ten years of Geeky Medics
Ten years ago, Lewis Potter, a medical student at the University of Newcastle, bought a…
Covid-19: GPs can’t get results of tests carried out at drive-through centres
General practices have been left without access to many thousands of covid-19 test results for…
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Tackling burnout among senior clinicians: the paediatrician
Anna Baverstock’s interest in wellbeing began 18 years ago. “I was pregnant with my daughter…
Alcohol, smoking, and other substance use in the perinatal period
What you need to knowAsk about substance use in all women who are pregnant or…
Covid-19: Known risk factors fail to explain the increased risk of death among people from ethnic minorities
People from Asian and black ethnic backgrounds are at increased risk of dying from covid-19…
Covid-19: EU states report 60% rise in emergency calls about domestic violence
A 60% increase in emergency calls from women subjected to violence by their intimate partner…
Covid-19: Health needs of sex workers are being sidelined, warn agencies
Agencies have criticised the lack of action to protect the health needs of sex workers…
The soaring joy of a family reunion
bmj;369/may07_9/m1832/FAF1faYara/ReutersThe meeting in Rome of Domenico di Massa with his granddaughter Cecilia for the first…
Covid-19: Number of Germans infected could be 10 times higher than official estimates
The number of people in Germany infected with covid-19, could be 10 times higher than…
Covid-19: Trump says added deaths are necessary price for reopening US businesses
A rise in mortality is a price worth paying to restart the US economy, President…
Adil El-Tayar: renowned NHS transplant surgeon who died from covid-19
bmj;369/may07_6/m1803/FAF1faPhoto credit: Abbas GhazanfarOn 25 March Adil El-Tayar, a renowned organ transplantation specialist, became the…
Covid-19: Nightingale hospitals set to shut down after seeing few patients
The mothballing of Britain’s Nightingale hospitals, some of which have yet to treat a single…
Covid-19: Campaigner calls for national guidance to stop DNR orders being made without discussion with patients and families
The daughter of a man who successfully fought to establish that patients have a right…
Covid-19: Surviving the long road ahead
More than four months after the first cases in China, we know a lot about…