Category: UK, COVID-19

bmj;384/mar26_17/q741/FAF1faStockport CouncilExperiences of working through the pandemic in Stockport have been captured in portraits of…

The public inquiry into the UK’s handling of the covid pandemic should make swifter recommendations…

The UK government’s pandemic planning followed a flawed doctrine of dealing with deaths rather than…

As the UK lurched from lockdowns to restrictions throughout 2020-21, many people will have felt…

This winter is likely to be brutal. The rising cost of living will force many…

Regular asymptomatic testing for covid-19 in hospitals, care homes, and hospices in England will be…

I recently used this platform to describe my personal experiences of working on covid wards…

AbstractObjectiveTo assess the risk of covid-19 death after infection with omicron BA.1 compared with delta…

Our health services face an unprecedented challenge in recovering from the pandemic and coping with…

bmj;377/may19_4/o1224/FAF1faSelfless, an exhibition of the work of photographer Jessica van der Weert that captures the…

Billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money are still at risk from contracts for personal protective…

What are the isolation rules in different countries?In the US, new rules mean that people…

Temporary hubs will be set up in the grounds of eight hospitals around England as…

AbstractObjectivesTo describe the rates for consulting a general practitioner (GP) for sequelae after acute covid-19…

Coroners in England are demanding changes in a series of reports highlighting how the struggling…

Having a different covid-19 vaccine after a single dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines…

The medical support worker (MSW) scheme, introduced by NHS England to boost the workforce during…

The UK remains vulnerable to the impact of extreme risks such as the covid-19 pandemic…

Children aged 5-11 who are given a low dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine produced…

MPs have called for a full investigation into the company that was awarded government contracts…

The BMA has called for evidence to inform its “lessons learnt” review into the UK’s…

Cases of covid-19 in the UK could be nearly twice as high as the official…

The UK must train more doctors to support the post-pandemic recovery of services, England’s national…

Health leaders have urged the UK government to reintroduce measures such as mandatory face coverings…

In the pandemic we’ve seen repeated instances in social media, radio phone-ins, and newspapers where…

The former BBC director general Mark Thompson, in his 2016 book Enough Said, explored the…

Medical experts in Northern Ireland are striving to pinpoint why the country has such a…

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine’s efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 peaked at 96.2% at seven days to two months…

The US, the UK, and the Netherlands face throwing away tens of thousands of covid-19…

The covid-19 pandemic has increased the level of burnout in trainees and risks reversing recent…

The government’s decision to lift all covid restrictions in England on 19 July could lead…

Working age adults in England’s poorest areas were almost four times more likely to die…

Greater Manchester had a 25% higher covid-19 death rate during the pandemic than England as…

The Scottish government did not heed warnings before the pandemic that improvements were needed to…

The final stage of easing covid-19 restrictions in England, which would have seen all restrictions…

Within weeks of the first UK death from covid-19 in 2020, calls began for an…

Sundays are much better nowadays. They used to start with gentle encouragement for my daughter…

Pre-pandemic issues such as severe budget cuts to local government and poor integration between the…

AbstractObjectiveTo estimate the real world effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 and Oxford-AstraZeneca ChAdOx1-S vaccines against…

As well as killing more than three million people worldwide, covid-19 has killed travel. Over…

Why is mandatory vaccination in the news?Leaders at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust have…

In 1995 the UK government’s Committee on Standards in Public Life published seven principles for…

AbstractObjectiveTo describe a novel England-wide electronic health record (EHR) resource enabling whole population research on…

A winter surge in hospital admissions is not unfamiliar. However, Public Health England’s annual flu…

The UK government has introduced new quarantine measures for international travellers in a bid to…

I want to set the record straight about some serious misinformation surrounding covid-19 death certification…

Just as I hoped that public understanding of the current covid-19 crisis was improving, and…

Nearly a third (31.2%) of all deaths in England and Wales in the week ending…

What do we know about this new SARS-CoV-2 variant?It’s been snappily named VUI-202012/01 (the first…

England’s test and trace service must improve its performance because laboratories are working well below…