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David Oliver: What can we learn from formal complaints during covid-19?

July 6, 2022

David Oliver: Is England’s NHS too “top down”?

June 29, 2022

Partha Kar: Understanding how others relate to you

June 28, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Unintended consequences of open access to medical notes

June 28, 2022

David Oliver: Reconciling patients and professionals after poor experiences

June 22, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Big data and patient trust

June 21, 2022

Matt Morgan: Trusting in people, not processes

June 21, 2022

David Oliver: Should we shift more specialist doctors’ time into community care?

June 15, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Brickbats and bouquets

June 14, 2022

David Oliver: No quick staffing fixes for the elective care backlog

June 1, 2022

Helen Salisbury: We are all Manjula Arora

May 31, 2022

David Oliver: “No rehab potential” or no rehab resources?

May 25, 2022

Partha Kar: Racism in the medical workforce—five initial steps

May 24, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Living under the long shadow of covid

May 24, 2022

David Oliver: Facts the Daily Mail omits in its GP bashing

May 4, 2022

David Oliver: Is NHS “inefficiency” a public myth?

April 13, 2022

Matt Morgan: The NHS needs a midlife crisis

April 12, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Why we still need to test for covid-19

April 12, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Open doors and open windows

April 5, 2022

David Oliver: Is Sajid Javid putting political ideology before prevention?

March 30, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Are antivirals a covid-19 game changer?

March 29, 2022

David Oliver: Can the recovery plan for elective care in England deliver?

March 23, 2022

Matt Morgan: Learning from all creatures great and small

March 22, 2022

Helen Salisbury: The persistence of covid

March 22, 2022

David Oliver: Interrupting doctors’ work

March 16, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Valuing our reception teams

March 15, 2022

Partha Kar: To improve clinical leadership we need a dose of realism

March 15, 2022

David Oliver: Medicine should be a stronger ally to other health professions

March 9, 2022

Helen Salisbury: The wrong prescription for primary care

March 8, 2022

Rammya Mathew: Emotional toll of being a junior doctor

March 8, 2022

David Oliver: Why do doctors sometimes fail in influencing medical policy?

March 2, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Expressing empathy

March 1, 2022

David Oliver: Has covid killed the medical conference?

February 23, 2022

Matt Morgan: No news, for patients, is bad news

February 22, 2022

Helen Salisbury: The complexity and joy of general practice

February 22, 2022

David Oliver: How much influence can doctors have over health policy?

February 16, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Why numbers matter

February 14, 2022

David Oliver: Central diktats won’t help more patients leave local hospitals

February 9, 2022

Partha Kar: We need leaders who represent the NHS workforce

February 8, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Levelling up—or punching down?

February 8, 2022

David Oliver: Making GPs hospital employees won’t solve pressure on hospitals or general practice

February 2, 2022

Rammya Mathew: The difference between a doctor and a family doctor

February 1, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Sajid Javid’s plan for a salaried GP service

February 1, 2022

David Oliver: Needs, wants, and demands for care

January 26, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Prolonging omicron

January 25, 2022

Matt Morgan: The trouble with “just asking questions”

January 25, 2022

David Oliver: The social care white paper provides few solutions to an urgent crisis

January 19, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Health, poverty, and stigma

January 18, 2022

David Oliver: Solutions for the workforce crisis exist, so let’s act now

January 12, 2022

Helen Salisbury: Covid-19 and the consequences of letting it rip

January 11, 2022

Partha Kar: Let’s plan ahead to support our GPs

January 11, 2022

David Oliver: Act on workforce gaps, or the NHS will never recover

January 5, 2022

Matt Morgan: Your 1800 weeks of work

January 4, 2022

Helen Salisbury: New Year’s revolutions?

January 4, 2022

David Oliver: Zealotry risks making faster hospital discharge a cult

December 8, 2021

Rammya Mathew: The true cost of unnecessary investigations

December 7, 2021

Helen Salisbury: Will GPs boost the booster rollout?

December 7, 2021

David Oliver: Lessons for NHS staff from the Grenfell inquiry

November 30, 2021

Helen Salisbury: Omicron—panic mongering or appropriate caution?

November 29, 2021

David Oliver: Dismissing unwell people to argue for pandemic freedoms is abhorrent and unrealistic

November 24, 2021

Helen Salisbury: E-consultations are increasing the GP workload

November 23, 2021

Partha Kar: Holding up a mirror to racism in the NHS

November 19, 2021

David Oliver: UK trained doctors, “part time” working, and ongoing commitment to the NHS

November 17, 2021

Matt Morgan: Sitting on the bin

November 16, 2021

Helen Salisbury: To level up, we need to top up GPs

November 16, 2021

David Oliver: The cultural problems still affecting PPE provision

November 10, 2021

Helen Salisbury: What do GPs do all day?

November 9, 2021

David Oliver: Should single rooms be the default for NHS inpatients?

November 3, 2021

Helen Salisbury: Could it be covid?

November 2, 2021

Rammya Mathew: Making general practice a sustainable career again

November 2, 2021

David Oliver: What parliament omitted from its “lessons learnt” on coronavirus

October 27, 2021

Partha Kar: Making sense of the health multiverse

October 26, 2021

Helen Salisbury: When do we switch to plan B?

October 26, 2021

David Oliver: Daily Mail,’s campaign on general practice won’t help GPs or their patients

October 20, 2021

Helen Salisbury: Sajid Javid’s missed opportunity

October 19, 2021

Matt Morgan: How watching Friends, may prevent your next complaint

October 19, 2021

David Oliver: When doctors are accused of faking covid experiences

October 13, 2021

Clare Gerada: Leadership has no magic formula

October 12, 2021

Helen Salisbury: Continuity saves lives

October 12, 2021

David Oliver: Outpatient clinics’ role in sustainability

October 6, 2021

Helen Salisbury: The time is now

October 5, 2021

Rammya Mathew: Climate action will require radical reform of how we practise medicine

October 5, 2021

David Oliver: How hospital doctors’ own pressures affect GPs

September 29, 2021

Partha Kar: If you believe you can change it, prove it

September 28, 2021

Helen Salisbury: Official hesitancy is not helping

September 28, 2021

Consent for covid-19 vaccination in children

September 28, 2021

Has the UK government given up the fight to protect and promote health?

September 23, 2021

David Oliver: Social care plan furthers inequality and unfairness

September 22, 2021

Matt Morgan: Bursting FOAM’s bubble

September 22, 2021

Helen Salisbury: Has your weight changed recently?

September 21, 2021

Clare Gerada: From clap to slap—general practice in crisis

September 14, 2021

Helen Salisbury: Trouble with the new normal

September 14, 2021

Media attacks on GPs threaten the doctor-patient relationship

September 14, 2021

David Oliver: What the plan for social care omitted

September 10, 2021

It’s more vital than ever that we have data to support the debate on assisted dying

September 9, 2021

David Oliver: When organisations’ behaviours betray their value statements

September 8, 2021

Rammya Mathew: Building compassionate and joyful workplaces

September 7, 2021

Helen Salisbury: Blood bottles, vaccines, and freight

September 7, 2021

David Oliver: Soundbites won’t solve a pandemic

September 1, 2021

Partha Kar: Jealousy, rivalry, and disdain—the toxicity of specialty stereotyping

August 31, 2021
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