The admission of a critically ill patient to an intensive care unit (ICU) is a distressing event for the patient, their family and friends, which has been amplified by the […]
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How do “heroes” speak up? NHS staff raising concerns during covid-19
In the extraordinary months since covid-19 started, NHS healthcare professionals have found themselves in a surreal situation, straddling two distinct realities. On the one hand, there is such enormous gratitude […]
Beyond checklists: Seeing the patient in technicolour
When I swapped my purple Public Health consultant badge two years ago for an orange foundation year badge on the medical wards, I knew that there would be challenging weeks. […]
Layla McCay: We must learn more from those who understand the covid-19 threat
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics were scheduled to be taking place now. We should have seen the grand opening ceremony last month and athletes from around the world competing to be […]
A catalyst for change? How the experience of the pandemic will shape community provision in future
Keeping patients well outside of a hospital setting and getting them home as soon as possible once they are medically fit delivers benefits both to the individual and to the […]
Sahar Abdulrahman: Do Black Lives Matter in the NHS?
Without analysing Blackness specifically, we cannot understand or defeat the anti-blackness that exists in the NHS, says Sahar Abdulrahman […]
Nigel Edwards: Plans to shake-up the NHS have a central flaw
Those of us who have been involved in the NHS for a long time will have felt a sinking feeling when they read recently that Boris Johnson, the UK prime […]
Covid-19: the psychiatric frontline
Acute psychiatry is on the NHS frontline, yet it has not always been at the forefront of people’s minds in the fight against the coronavirus. We admit new patients everyday […]
Nigel Crisp: A new settlement for health and wellbeing
The NHS has been magnificent during the pandemic, fighting for our lives over the last few weeks and months. But it’s been up to us, the general public, to limit how […]
Anna Charles: This is not the right time for a wholesale NHS reorganisation
You might expect, in the midst of a global pandemic, that unpicking the inner workings of the organisations that run and oversee the national health service would be far from […]