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Healthcare faces existential challenges - escalating demands against constrained resources, increasing co-morbidities and global crises in public health

Oct 15, 2021
3 min

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Crisis in UK General Practice

Crises accelerate rapid adoption of new technology and processes, and the use of telemedicine has expanded over the last 18 months far...

Apr 24, 2021
2 min

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COVID hospitalisations & variants

Hospital rates falling across Europe Across Europe, the latest data from ECDC (link) and Gov.UK (link) shows that hospitalisation rates...

Patterns of hospitalisation across Europe

Apr 16, 2021
1 min

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Patterns of hospitalisation across Europe

The Gov.UK Coronavirus (COVID-19) dashboard (more) provides a daily update on numbers of tests, confirmed cases, hospitalisations and...

Apr 12, 2021
2 min

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Wider innovation in healthcare

Lateral flow tests Lateral flow tests (LFT) are increasingly ubiquitous. Less sensitive than the gold-standard PCR swabs, but they...

Yellow Cards - putting risks into perspective

Apr 12, 2021
2 min

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Yellow Cards - putting risks into perspective

For the last two months, the MHRA has been producing a weekly summary of Yellow Cards linked to COVID-19 vaccines - the early warning...

Apr 9, 2021
2 min

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COVID-19 and Long-Term Care

The tireless work of the International Long Term Care Policy Network (more) has been pivotal to our better understanding of the impact of...

Nov 7, 2020
1 min

Everything COVID

Our hospitals at start of November

As England moved to Tier 4 last Thursday and an attenuated version of the first national lockdown, we update our prior analysis of...

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